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Princeton's WordNet

  1. niecenoun

    a daughter of your brother or sister

Wiktionary

  1. 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").

  2. 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

  1. 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.

Wikipedia

  1. niece

    In the lineal kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a niece or nephew is a child of someone's sibling or sibling-in-law (and would view that person as an aunt or uncle). A niece is female and a nephew is male. The term nibling has been used in place of the common, gender-specific terms in some specialist literature.As aunt/uncle and niece/nephew are separated by one generation, they are an example of a second-degree relationship. They are 25% related by blood.

ChatGPT

  1. niece

    A niece is a female relative who is the daughter of one's brother or sister, or the daughter of one's spouse's brother or sister.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Niecenoun

    a relative, in general; especially, a descendant, whether male or female; a granddaughter or a grandson

  2. Niecenoun

    a daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law

  3. Etymology: [OE. nece, F. nice, LL. neptia, for L. neptis a granddaughter, niece, akin to nepos. See Nephew.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. 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

  1. 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  


  2. niece

    The daughter of one’s sibling.


    Submitted by dklajksdajsdaiuoiuoew on December 15, 2019  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. NIECE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Niece is ranked #28498 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Niece surname appeared 837 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Niece.

    93.1% or 780 total occurrences were White.
    2.5% or 21 total occurrences were Black.
    2.1% or 18 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.6% or 14 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of niece in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of niece in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of niece in a Sentence

  1. Chad Barnhill:

    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.

  2. Megan McCall:

    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.

  3. Christine Carugati:

    I think I took my lead from my niece and I wanted my daughter to keep enjoying sports, i saw it every time the season ended my daughter would be looking forward to the next season and the new sport, and with every change of season, there was new excitement. And I really feel like that kept her interested.

  4. Rashad Caleb:

    Once I realized that my niece and my sister were nowhere to be found, I ran back and that's when I started recording.

  5. Marta Pinto:

    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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