"gran'ma" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: gran'mas [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} gran'ma (plural gran'mas)
  1. Alternative form of grandma. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: grandma
    Sense id: en-gran'ma-en-noun-41DDCTNU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1904, Hall Caine, chapter XIII, in The Prodigal Son, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, page 300:",
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          "text": "The rest was stories, told before his bedtime, of the dark deeds of night, remembered from her own childhood, told to her by her own mama, and her gran’pa and gran’ma, the things a black child in the South needed to know, and luridly colored, in Flora’s telling, as warning to her boy.",
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