grandmaternal

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adjective

of or relating to a grandmother

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Meanings

adjectivegrandmaternal (not comparable)
  1. not comparableof or relating to a grandmother

    Though it was a maternal feeling of a kind she hadn't really known with her own children; perhaps, in fact, a grandmaternal feeling, wise, affectionate, forbearing, soft-hearted, but also a little weary, a little retrospective, a little removed...

    2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 213

Origin

From grand- + maternal.

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APA

grandmaternal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grandmaternal

MLA

“grandmaternal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grandmaternal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grandmaternal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grandmaternal.

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