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Princeton's WordNet
niece(noun)
a daughter of your brother or sister
Wiktionary
niece(Noun)
A daughter of someone's sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").
Etymology: nece, from nece (Modern French nièce "niece") from *, representing neptis, from nepot-. Akin to nift ( Nichte). Displaced native nifte (from nift).
Webster Dictionary
Niece(noun)
a relative, in general; especially, a descendant, whether male or female; a granddaughter or a grandson
Etymology: [OE. nece, F. nice, LL. neptia, for L. neptis a granddaughter, niece, akin to nepos. See Nephew.]
Niece(noun)
a daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law
Etymology: [OE. nece, F. nice, LL. neptia, for L. neptis a granddaughter, niece, akin to nepos. See Nephew.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Niece
nēs, n. (fem. of Nephew) the daughter of a brother or sister: (orig.) a granddaughter. [O. Fr.,—Low L. nepta—L. neptis, a granddaughter, niece.]
Editors Contribution
niece
The daughter of one’s sibling.
Submitted by dklajksdajsdaiuoiuoew on December 15, 2019Niece
A Daughter of one's Sibbling or Cousin in The Rapport with her Maternal or Paternal Grandparents' Other Children or Great-Grandparents'Other Grandchildren or her Great-Grandparents/Ancestors/Great-Great-Grandparents' Other Descendents/Great-Grandchildren, a Grandniece is a Granddaugher of one's Sibbling or Brother in The Rapport with her Great-Grandparents/Ancestors' Other Children, Grandchildren or Descendents/Great-Grandchildren, a Great-Grandniece is a Great-Granddaugther of one's Sibbling or Cousin, with the Common Ascendents in The Right line from the Great-Great-Grandparents, a Great-Great-Grandniece is a Great-Great-Granddaugther of one's Sibbling or Cousin, with the Common Ascendents in The Right line from the Great-Great-Great-Grandparents/3rd Great-Grandparents, and so on.
An Aunt comforted her Niece at her Grandparents' Funeral, she teached her, just good things, and her Niece was always good with her.
Submitted by fcatana14 on August 15, 2020
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of niece in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of niece in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of niece in a Sentence
The DA never called, there was no consideration for Renata, my niece, my parents, me, or the officers. It was as if she didn't care.
We were an hour away from her sister’s home and, after performing the night before and then knowing she would have a long night that following evening, she still drove to Hastings to spend the day with her niece.
My mother lost her son. I lost a brother. My niece, everybody, lost a dear friend.
In old times these things were covered up, they were covered up also in the homes when the uncle raped the little niece, or the father raped his children. They were covered up because the shame was very big.
They took me to the house of a niece because I suffer from lung disease, my husband arrived and said: 'Love, we have lost everything.' I´ve cried all my tears already. My heart is so sore for everything that has happened to us, to our neighbors, in this tremendous tragedy.
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- بنت الأخ, بنت الأخت, أبنة الأخ أو الأختArabic
- пляме́нніцаBelarusian
- пле́менницаBulgarian
- nebodaCatalan, Valencian
- neteřCzech
- nieceDanish
- NichteGerman
- ανεψιά, ανιψιάGreek
- nevinoEsperanto
- sobrinaSpanish
- õetütar, vennatütarEstonian
- ilobaBasque
- دختر برادر یا خواهر و غیرهPersian
- veljentytär, sisarentytärFinnish
- nièceFrench
- nichtWestern Frisian
- neachtIrish
- nighean-bràthar, nighean-peatharScottish Gaelic
- sobriñaGalician
- אחייניתHebrew
- भतीजीHindi
- unokahúgHungarian
- եղբոր աղջիկ, քրոջ աղջիկArmenian
- keponakan, kemenakan, misanIndonesian
- nevinoIdo
- systurdóttir, bróðurdóttirIcelandic
- nipoteItalian
- 姪Japanese
- soraluaqKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- ಸೋದರ ಸೊಸೆKannada
- 조카딸Korean
- خوشکهزاKurdish
- filia fratris, filia sororisLatin
- tamaiti whakaangi, irāmutuMāori
- брата́ница, се́стричнаMacedonian
- anak saudara, anak saudara perempuanMalay
- nicht, nichtjeDutch
- nebodaOccitan
- bratanica, siostrzenicaPolish
- sobrinhaPortuguese
- nezza, niaza, neazaRomansh
- nepoatăRomanian
- племя́нницаRussian
- oappánieida, vieljanieidaNorthern Sami
- nećakinja, bratična, sinovka, sestričina, sinovica, bratanica, nećaka, nesteraSerbo-Croatian
- neterSlovak
- nečakinjaSlovene
- mbesëAlbanian
- brorsdotter, niece, systerdotterSwedish
- mpwaSwahili
- మేనకోడలుTelugu
- หลานสาวThai
- pamangking babaeTagalog
- yeğenTurkish
- племі́нницяUkrainian
- بھتیجیUrdu
- söranef, sörajinef, blodacil, blodajicil, sörajicil, blodanef, blodajinef, blodadaut, söradaut, blodajison, sörajison, söracil, nef, jinefVolapük
- 侄女Chinese
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