My great-grandmother always says: "It's better to look after your own children than to watch other people's at the daycare."
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Great-grandmother
Synonyms for "great-grandmother" (4 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Strong matches (1)
Related words (2)
Noun(1 words)
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Translations
97 translations across 62 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- oorgrootmoeder noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- oumagrootjie noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Albanian
1 entries- stërgjyshe noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Asturian
1 entries- bisgüela noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Basque
2 entries- birramama noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- birramona noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Belarusian
1 entries- прабабу́ля noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Bengali
1 entries- পরদাদী noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Bulgarian
1 entries- праба́ба noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Catalan
2 entries- besàvia noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- redepadrina noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Chinese
1 entries- тэтэ noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 太婆 noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- 太嫲 noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 曾祖母 noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Cornish
1 entries- mamm guv noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Czech
2 entries- prababička noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- prabába noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Danish
2 entries- oldemoder noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- oldemor noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Dutch
1 entries- overgrootmoeder noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Esperanto
1 entries- praavino noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Faroese
1 entries- langomma noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Finnish
4 entries- isoisoäiti noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- isomummi noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- isomummo noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- isomummu noun (mother of one's grandparent)
French
2 entries- arrière-grand-mère noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- bisaïeule noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Friulian
1 entries- basave noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Galician
1 entries- bisavoa noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Georgian
1 entries- დიდი ბებია noun (mother of one's grandparent)
German
2 entries- Urgrossmutter noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- Urgroßmutter noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Greek
1 entries- προγιαγιά noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Hebrew
1 entries- סבתא רבתא \ סָבְתָא רַבְּתָא noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Hindi
2 entries- परदादी noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- परनानी noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Hungarian
1 entries- dédanya noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Icelandic
1 entries- langamma noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Ido
1 entries- preavino noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Indonesian
1 entries- nenek buyut noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Irish
1 entries- sin-seanmháthair noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Italian
4 entries- bisava noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- bisavola noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- bisnonna noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- proava noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Japanese
2 entries- 曾お祖母さん noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- 曾祖母 noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Kashmiri
1 entries- بَڈٕ نانؠ noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Korean
1 entries- 증조모 noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Ladino
1 entries- biznona noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Macedonian
1 entries- пра́баба noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Malay
3 entries- ibu datuk nenek noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- moyang noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- moyang perempuan noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Miyako
1 entries- ガバむマ noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Navajo
2 entries- achó noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- naakidi nánálí noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Norman
1 entries- grand-grand-méthe noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- oldemor noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- oldemor noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Polish
2 entries- prababcia noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- prababka noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Portuguese
1 entries- bisavó noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Romanian
1 entries- străbunică noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Russian
2 entries- праба́бка noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- праба́бушка noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sinn-seanmhair noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- prabáka noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- pràbaba noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- пра̀баба noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- праба́ка noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Sicilian
2 entries- mamma-granni noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- sbinnanna noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Slovak
1 entries- prababička noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Slovene
1 entries- prababica noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Spanish
1 entries- bisabuela noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Sundanese
1 entries- nini uyut noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Swedish
4 entries- farfarsmor noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- farmorsmor noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- gammelfarmor noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- gammelmormor noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Tagalog
1 entries- lola sa tuhod noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Tamil
1 entries- கொள்ளுப்பாட்டி noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Udmurt
1 entries- песяпесянай noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Ukrainian
2 entries- праба́ба noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- прабабу́ся noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bà cố noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Welsh
2 entries- hen fam-gu noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- hen nain noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Yiddish
2 entries- אור־באָבע noun (mother of one's grandparent)
- עלטער־באָבע noun (mother of one's grandparent)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
She's my great-grandmother.
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Tell it, please, to your great-grandmother.
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Being the oldest of her siblings, Joanna inherited a family Bible, which contained the names of her father, grandfather and great-grandmother along with their respective dates and places of birth, baptism, marriage and death and the birthdays of all their descendants.
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