grandam
/ˈɡrandam
/(also grandame)
noun
1 archaic term for grandmother.Like her mother and her undefeated champion grandam, the precocious Storm Flag Flying keeps McGaughey on his toes.
1.1An old woman.One group crowds around a tippling grandam, closely attentive to her stories.
1.2A female ancestor.
Origin
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French graund dame (see grand, dame). Of the English terms of relationship formed with grand, this is the oldest.
- forceful
- forcefully
- forcefulness
- force-land
- force majeure
- forcemeat
- force of habit
- force oneself on/upon
- force (or ram or shove) something down someone's throat
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- remotivate
- remotivation
- remotive
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- remou
- remoulade
- remould
- remount
- remous
- removability
- removable
- removal
- removalist
- removal of remains
- removal order