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Princeton's WordNet
niecenoun
a daughter of your brother or sister
Wiktionary
niecenoun
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).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Niecenoun
The daughter of a brother or sister.
Etymology: niece, niepee, French; neptis, Latin.
My niece Plantagenet,
Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Gloster. William Shakespeare, R. III.While he thus his niece bestows,
About our isle he builds a wall. Edmund Waller.
Webster Dictionary
Niecenoun
a relative, in general; especially, a descendant, whether male or female; a granddaughter or a grandson
Niecenoun
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
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
niece
The daughter of one’s sibling.
Submitted by dklajksdajsdaiuoiuoew on December 15, 2019
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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
My mother lost her son. I lost a brother. My niece, everybody, lost a dear friend.
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.
This toy brought so much joy and happiness to my 8-year-old niece, and there are thousands and thousands of families just like Nick Caprio and I. I just had to do something.
I just need to know he's OK, if the house and the cars are destroyed they can be replaced, but my niece needs her dad -- and as much as I sometimes can't stand him, I would do anything to just know he's OK.
Whatever has to be done has to be done, plain and simple. My niece is a little child, she doesn't know better. My sister, she definitely should know better.
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- بنت الأخت, بنت الأخ, أبنة الأخ أو الأختArabic
- пляме́нніцаBelarusian
- пле́менницаBulgarian
- nebodaCatalan, Valencian
- neteřCzech
- nieceDanish
- NichteGerman
- ανιψιά, ανεψιάGreek
- nevinoEsperanto
- sobrinaSpanish
- õetütar, vennatütarEstonian
- ilobaBasque
- دختر برادر یا خواهر و غیرهPersian
- sisarentytär, veljentytärFinnish
- nièceFrench
- nichtWestern Frisian
- neachtIrish
- nighean-peathar, nighean-bràtharScottish Gaelic
- sobriñaGalician
- אחייניתHebrew
- भतीजीHindi
- unokahúgHungarian
- քրոջ աղջիկ, եղբոր աղջիկArmenian
- kemenakan, keponakan, misanIndonesian
- nevinoIdo
- systurdóttir, bróðurdóttirIcelandic
- nipoteItalian
- 姪Japanese
- soraluaqKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- ಸೋದರ ಸೊಸೆKannada
- 조카딸Korean
- خوشکهزاKurdish
- filia sororis, filia fratrisLatin
- tamaiti whakaangi, irāmutuMāori
- се́стрична, брата́ницаMacedonian
- anak saudara perempuan, anak saudaraMalay
- nichtje, nichtDutch
- nebodaOccitan
- bratanica, siostrzenicaPolish
- sobrinhaPortuguese
- neaza, niaza, nezzaRomansh
- nepoatăRomanian
- племя́нницаRussian
- oappánieida, vieljanieidaNorthern Sami
- sinovka, nećakinja, bratična, sestričina, nestera, sinovica, bratanica, nećakaSerbo-Croatian
- neterSlovak
- nečakinjaSlovene
- mbesëAlbanian
- niece, systerdotter, brorsdotterSwedish
- mpwaSwahili
- మేనకోడలుTelugu
- หลานสาวThai
- pamangking babaeTagalog
- yeğenTurkish
- племі́нницяUkrainian
- بھتیجیUrdu
- sörajison, söranef, sörajinef, blodacil, blodajicil, sörajicil, blodanef, jinef, blodajinef, blodadaut, nef, söradaut, blodajison, söracilVolapük
- 侄女Chinese
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