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NIECE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A daughter of your brother or sister
Classified under:
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:
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)
I tell you I'm a going to seek my niece!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Do you know Miss Bates's niece?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
His niece, meanwhile, did not thank him for what he had just done.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I do think Mrs. Long is as good a creature as ever lived—and her nieces are very pretty behaved girls, and not at all handsome: I like them prodigiously.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, so there only remained your niece and the maids.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Last Thursday (May 7th), I, my niece, and your two brothers, went to walk in Plainpalais.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Had my mother given me some active profession when I was removed at eighteen from the care of Mr. Pratt, I think—nay, I am sure, it would never have happened; for though I left Longstaple with what I thought, at the time, a most unconquerable preference for his niece, yet had I then had any pursuit, any object to engage my time and keep me at a distance from her for a few months, I should very soon have outgrown the fancied attachment, especially by mixing more with the world, as in such case I must have done.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Ford started anew to tell how he had first read The Ring of Bells, and Mr. Ends at the same time was striving to repeat his niece's appreciation of The Ring of Bells, said niece being a school-teacher in Alameda.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They found Aunt Carrol with the old lady, both absorbed in some very interesting subject, but they dropped it as the girls came in, with a conscious look which betrayed that they had been talking about their nieces.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
