NIECE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does niece mean? 

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

1. a daughter of your brother or sister

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NIECE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A daughter of your brother or sister

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

kinswoman (a female relative)

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

grandniece; great-niece (a daughter of your niece or nephew)

Antonym:

nephew (a son of your brother or sister)

 Context examples 

I'm a going to find my poor niece in her shame, and bring her back.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Do you know how Miss Bates and her niece came here?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She has two nieces of her own.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She was attractive, she was modest, she was Sir Thomas's niece, and she was soon said to be admired by Mr. Crawford.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

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)

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)

Dearest niece, said my father, dry your tears.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Your niece knew nothing of such men.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You found out that his niece would inherit his fortune.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No, it wouldn't, returned Jo, I neither like, respect, nor admire Tudor, though his grandfather's uncle's nephew's niece was a third cousin to a lord.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)