Meanings
noungrandmotherhood (uncountable)
- uncountableThe state of being a grandmother.
Could I think otherwise of one so deeply merged in grandmotherhood?
1860, Thomas De Quincey, Essays on Philosophical Writers and Other Men of Letters1 more example
The duties of grandmotherhood are surely not alleged as preventing economic independence.
1898, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, page 21
Origin
Translations
Turkish ninelik
- ninelikstate of being a grandmother
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