NEPHEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nephew mean? 

• NEPHEW (noun)
  The noun NEPHEW has 1 sense:

1. a son of your brother or sister

  Familiarity information: NEPHEW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEPHEW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A son of your brother or sister

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("nephew" is a kind of...):

kinsman (a male relative)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nephew"):

grandnephew; great-nephew (a son of your niece or nephew)

Antonym:

niece (a daughter of your brother or sister)

 Context examples 

So this is my nephew, is it?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It matters nothing to me that you should know how my nephew died.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Though her nephew had had no particular reason to hasten back on her account, she had not lived above six-and-thirty hours after his return.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“You are a very old friend of my nephew's, Mr. Micawber,” said my aunt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You cannot fail to see that twenty thousand pounds, the sum in question, divided equally between the nephew and three nieces of our uncle, will give five thousand to each?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Whatever my connections may be,” said Elizabeth, “if your nephew does not object to them, they can be nothing to you.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

One day, a young gentleman, who was nephew to my nurse’s governess, came and pressed them both to see an execution.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"He's a born Weller," laughed Jo, as her parent gathered himself up, and her nephew tried to stand on his head, as the only mode of expressing his satisfaction that school was over.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This included the home of Prime Minister Tuilaepa, who told the press his nephew needed a dose.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)