babushka
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8.5
- noun
- /bəˈbuʃkə/
- When I visit, my babushka always prepares my favorite dish.
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Examples
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Is your babushka Olga still with us?
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I love your babushka.
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I like the old babushka.
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My babushka had died two summers before.
Fiction book (2000) -
The babushka amazed Tom with her English: "He learned to ride a bicycle at sixty years old."
Fiction book (1997) -
"Stop that noise," Madame Babushka commanded.
Fiction book (2001) -
My poor, poor, babushka.
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My little babushka.
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Good luck, babushka.
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Goodbye, babushka!
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
287
1.0
A woman who is past middle age
174
1.0
An older woman who is your grandmother or a friendly older family member
19
5.0
A loving old-fashioned word for the mother of your parent
3
8.1
An old-fashioned, loving name for a child's grandmother
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9.0
A grandmother in families with German or Dutch background
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9.7
A loving name for an older woman used like a grandmother
1
8.7
An older woman who is the mother of your parent
1
9.5
An affectionate word for grandmother used in some South Asian families
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9.9
A warm name for a grandmother in Jewish families
Surface Forms
Etymology
Babushka is the Russian word babushka meaning 'grandmother', and it comes from the older word baba meaning 'woman' or 'grandmother'. So in English a babushka is used for an elderly woman or grandmother, often one from Russia or Eastern Europe.