- the mother of your father or mother
- I always loved going to visit my grandmother.
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See grandmother in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryteach your grandmother to suck eggs
- (British English, informal) to tell or show somebody how to do something that they can already do well, and probably better than you can
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