niece
nounEtymology
From Middle English nece (“niece, granddaughter”), from Old French nece (“niece, granddaughter”) (Modern French nièce (“niece”)) from Late Latin neptia, representing Latin neptis (“granddaughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *néptih₂ (“granddaughter, niece”). Doublet of nift.
Definitions
A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law
A daughter of one’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").
- My niece just celebrated her 15th birthday.
A daughter of one’s cousin or cousin-in-law
A surname.
The neighborhood
- synonymnift
- antonymnephewwith regard to gender
- antonymauntwith regard to ancestry
- antonymuncle
- neighbordad
- neighbormom
- neighborbrother
- neighborsister
- neighborgrandfather
- neighborgrandmother
- neighborcousin
- neighborstep-
- neighbornephling
- neighbornibling
Derived
grandniece, great-niece, half niece, niece fucker, niece-in-law, nieceless, niecely, nieceship, niefling, step-niece, stepniece
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for niece. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA