noun
Meaning 1
A grandmother of one's spouse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
grandmother-in-law
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History
Etymology
From grandmother + -in-law.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: ressogra — grandmother of one's spouse
- Dutch: schoongrootmoeder — grandmother of one's spouse
- Esperanto: boavino — grandmother of one's spouse
- Finnish: puolison isoäiti — grandmother of one's spouse
- Finnish: isoanoppi — grandmother of one's spouse
- French: belle-grand-mère — grandmother of one's spouse
- German: Schwiegergroßmutter — grandmother of one's spouse
- German: Schwiegeroma — grandmother of one's spouse
- Hungarian: nagyanyós — grandmother of one's spouse
- Ido: boavino — grandmother of one's spouse
- Latin: prosocrus — grandmother of one's spouse
- Malay: nenek mertua — grandmother of one's spouse
- Serbo-Croatian: прапуница — grandmother of one's spouse
- Serbo-Croatian: праташта — grandmother of one's spouse
- Serbo-Croatian: прасвекрва — grandmother of one's spouse
- Serbo-Croatian: prapunica — grandmother of one's spouse
- Serbo-Croatian: pratašta — grandmother of one's spouse
- Serbo-Croatian: prasvekrva — grandmother of one's spouse
- Spanish: abuela política — grandmother of one's spouse
- Turkish: kayın nine — grandmother of one's spouse