grandmothers
USGRAND-muh-thurz/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚz/UKGRAND-muh-thuhz/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðə(r)z/
- 1Plural of grandmother.
Many grandmothers in the village still pass down recipes by memory alone.
The exhibit honored the grandmothers who raised entire households during the war.
Note
A plain plural that carries both senses of its singular. Most often it counts the mothers of parents, as in a family photograph with both grandmothers in it. It also reaches back to female ancestors in general: "our grandmothers," in that wider sense, can mean women of generations long past. Context, often a collective possessive like our, tells the reader which is meant.
grandmothers is a form of grandmother
grandmother, noun: The mother of one of a person's parents. Full entry
- Forms
- grandmothergrandmothers plural
- Spelling
- grandmother → grandmothers: add -s
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