What's the difference between grandam and grandma?

Grandam


Definition:

  • (n.) An old woman; specifically, a grandmother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two ANOVA solution sets for the parameters of model 4 were based on sire, dam, maternal grandsire, maternal grandam and phenotypic variances and offspring-dam (covOD), offspring-sire (covOS), offspring-grandam (covOGD) and offspring-maternal half-aunt or uncle (covOMH) covariances.
  • (2) Two ANOVA solution sets for the parameters of model 4 were obtained using sire, dam, maternal grandsire, maternal grandam and phenotypic variances and offspring-dam (covOD), offspring-sire (covOS), offspring-grandam (covOGD), and offspring-maternal half-aunt or uncle (covOMH) covariances.

Grandma


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Grandmamma

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
  • (2) They even accused him of wanting to pull the plug on grandma .
  • (3) As one author so aptly states, "Not too many years ago the words grandma and grandpa conjured images of rocking chairs and inactivity.
  • (4) In the second (and final) series of Grandma's House last year, the career of "the character" Simon Amstell couldn't even get a gig presenting his aunt's local charity quiz; his only chance of going to America was as his semi-boyfriend's lackey.
  • (5) The clothes are at the forefront of Shibuya fashion, taking cues from the park sandpit, the urban divebar and grandma's wardrobe, and reworking them into a cutesy package for teenagers.
  • (6) Ask every grandma who is standing out there,” said Allard, who owns land where some of the activists have been camped for months.
  • (7) I don’t think I even listened to them.” In 2013, while Hebden was making the album Beautiful Rewind , his grandma passed away.
  • (8) We couldn't put on programming that would offend grandma as that might lose us a subscription.
  • (9) You’ve done more for women in cinema than you take credit for.” Lovely speech, topped with the grace note of Grandma.
  • (10) The 1992 election, with Clinton competing against America’s grandma Barbara Bush for the role of first lady, is when the national sexist spotlight began to shine.
  • (11) And that because she came out of Grandma's vagina and so on, it makes that relationship harder, too.
  • (12) Apart from our scientists, there is a "Lady Robot" (who exists mainly to party), a "Pretzel Girl", a "Diner Waitress" (who will boss you about if you don't agree with her recommendation of which burger is best for you), and "Grandma".
  • (13) When a black preacher makes sweeping pronouncements about whites, that's clearly racism; when your relative whispers about a stereotype whose roots go back as far as the preacher's rage, well, that's just grandma.
  • (14) To Be Free, the fourth show from the ex-Grandma’s House man, promises to explore “freedom, joy, love, death, adventure, art, peace, sex, regret, success, eating, suffering, dreaming, healing, forgiving and other areas”.
  • (15) But, with becoming heavyweight champion of the world comes responsibility, because you’ve got people from kids to grandmas watching you.
  • (16) Limited care If you remember anything from the 2009 and 2010 Obamacare debates, it's probably the "death panels": the notion that the government is going to restrict care and decide whether grandma lives or dies.
  • (17) My grandma was running me to the hospital.” Carson, who in some years performed more than 500 pediatric brain surgeries, received the patient.
  • (18) When asked to namecheck his favourite shows, however, Preston reels off a list of BBC programmes: Sherlock, Simon Amstell's sitcom Grandma's House and Rev, while he "can't wait" for The Apprentice to return.
  • (19) My grandma, a working-class street trader, would never have tolerated the old-style Glastonbury lavatories.
  • (20) Grandma got any more medals?” When Monroe, who is from an armed forces family, responded furiously and demanded £5,000 for a migrants’ charity on threat of a libel action, Hopkins deleted the original tweet but followed it up with one asking what the difference was between “irritant Penny and social anthrax Monroe”.

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