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ˈgræn dəm, -dæm; -deɪm, -dəmgrandam
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grandamnoun
grandmother
grandamnoun
old lady, elderly woman
Etymology: From the French grand dame
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Grandamnoun
Etymology: grand and dam or dame.
I meeting him, will tell him that my lady
Was fairer than his grandam, and as chaste
As may be in the world. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida.A woman’s story, at a Winter’s fire,
Authoris’d by her grandam. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.We have our forefathers and great grandames all before us, as they were in Geoffrey Chaucer ’s days. John Dryden, Fables, Pref.
Thy tygress heart belies thy angel face:
Too well thou shew’st thy pedigree from stone;
Thy grandame ’s was the first by Pyrrha thrown. Dryden.The women
Cry’d, one and all, the suppliant should have right,
And to the grandame hag adjudg’d the knight. Dryden.
Webster Dictionary
Grandamnoun
an old woman; specifically, a grandmother
Etymology: [F. grande, fem. of grand + dame. See Grand, and Dame.]
Anagrams for grandam »
Grandma
grandma
dragman
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of grandam in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of grandam in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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