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English
Etymology
From step- + grandmother.
Noun
stepgrandmother (plural stepgrandmothers)
- The stepmother of one's father or mother and the wife of one's grandfather, usually a woman that one's grandfather marries after the divorce of one's grandparents or the death of one's grandmother.
- The mother of one's stepmother or stepfather.
2009 January 21, Jodi Kantor, “In First Family, a Nation’s Many Faces”, in New York Times:The president’s elderly stepgrandmother brought him an oxtail fly whisk, a mark of power at home in Kenya.
Translations
stepmother of one's parent and wife of one's grandfather
mother of one's stepparent