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NEPHEW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A son of your brother or sister
Classified under:
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:
As he groped his way across the hall he stumbled over a toy-cart, left there by one of his numerous nephews and nieces, and brought up against a door with a resounding bang.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His nephew's introduction to Admiral Crawford might be of service.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Even in his chastened frame of mind, the noble miser could give us no information which could help us, for he knew little of the private life of his nephew.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ah, my unfortunate nephew!
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Till he came and had examined the child, their apprehensions were the worse for being vague; they suspected great injury, but knew not where; but now the collar-bone was soon replaced, and though Mr Robinson felt and felt, and rubbed, and looked grave, and spoke low words both to the father and the aunt, still they were all to hope the best, and to be able to part and eat their dinner in tolerable ease of mind; and then it was, just before they parted, that the two young aunts were able so far to digress from their nephew's state, as to give the information of Captain Wentworth's visit; staying five minutes behind their father and mother, to endeavour to express how perfectly delighted they were with him, how much handsomer, how infinitely more agreeable they thought him than any individual among their male acquaintance, who had been at all a favourite before.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
With them also were the pick of the Gascon chivalry—the old Duc d'Armagnac, his nephew Lord d'Albret, brooding and scowling over his wrongs, the giant Oliver de Clisson, the Captal de Buch, pink of knighthood, the sprightly Sir Perducas d'Albret, the red-bearded Lord d'Esparre, and a long train of needy and grasping border nobles, with long pedigrees and short purses, who had come down from their hill-side strongholds, all hungering for the spoils and the ransoms of Spain.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“How old are you, nephew?” he asked.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A letter arrived from Mr. Churchill to urge his nephew's instant return.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“This is my nephew,” said my aunt.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
How far your nephew might approve of your interference in his affairs, I cannot tell; but you have certainly no right to concern yourself in mine.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
