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grandmotherhood en · NOUN

Etymology

From grandmother + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being a grandmother.
    • 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:
    • Could I think otherwise of one so deeply merged in grandmotherhood? 1860, Thomas De Quincey, Essays on Philosophical Writers and Other Men of Letters:

Translations (1)

tr ninelik (state of being a grandmother)