Niece

Definition: Niece

Niece

Noun

1. A daughter of your brother or sister.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "niece" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Etymology: Niece \Niece\, noun. [from Old English expression nece, French ni[`e]ce, Late Latin expression neptia, for Latin neptis granddaughter, niece, akin to nepos. See Nephew.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

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Consanguinity

Kinsman, kinfolk; kith and kin; relation, relative; connection; sibling, sib; next of kin; uncle, aunt, nephew, niece; cousin, cousin-german; first cousin, second cousin; cousin once removed, cousin twice; removed; near relation, distant relation; brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood.

Crosswords: Niece

Danish (niece), Swedish (niece).

I'm her niece. My name's Betty (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch)

That's my niece in that belly (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Soon after, Halloween became another word for mayhem! One by one, he killed his entire family, until his nine-year-old niece, Jamie Lloyd, was the only one left alive (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers; writing credit: Debra Hill; John Carpenter)

If I were his nephew instead of his niece (Doctor Dolittle; writing credit: Hugh Lofting; Leslie Bricusse)

I think we both know she's not my niece. (Pretty Woman; writing credit: J.F. Lawton)

Mr. Bolter's Niece (1913)

The Niece and the Chorus Lady (1911)

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Books

• East of Niece (reference)

• Evil's Niece (Black Lace) (reference)

• Job's Niece (reference)

• Job's Niece (Grace Livingston Hill #53) (reference)

• Letters to a Niece (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Case of the Nasty Niece (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Juan Chivaria the most distinguished chief in Arizona Juan Chivaria, his son & niece. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. Albert Brissant and his niece who are still living in the Pine Camp relocation area near Evans Mills, New York. They had an antique shop here which they have sold out and are now looking for a new farm. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bertha Wright, age five, niece of the Wright brothers, daughter of Lorin Wright. Credit: Library of Congress.

Helen Wright, age 12, niece of the Wright brothers, daughter of Reuchlin Wright. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ivonette Wright, age five, niece of the Wright brothers, daughter of Lorin Wright. Credit: Library of Congress.

Leontine Wright, daughter of Lorin Wright, niece of Wilbur and Orville, three-quarter length. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

By the bye, that is almost enough to put one out of conceit with a niece.

His niece looked just the same

And that, in return for this, the prioress would admit his brother into the house as gardener and his niece as boarder

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Children

New Zealand

In June a woman was sentenced to 6 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing her 23-month-old niece. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "niece": grand-niece, great-great-great-niece, great-niece, half-niece.

Afrikaans

susterskind (nephew), niggie (cousin), nig, broerskind (nephew). (various references)

Albanian

mbesë (grandchild, granddaughter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إبنة أخ الزوجة أو أختها, ‏إبنة أخ الزوج, ‏أبنة الأخ أو الأخت. (various references)

Asturian

sobrina. (various references)

Bulgarian 

племенница. (various references)

Cebuano

pag-umangkong babaye. (various references)

Chamorro

subrina. (various references)

Chinese 

甥女 . (various references)

Cornish

nýth. (various references)

Czech

neteř. (various references)

Danish

søsterdatter, broderdatter. (various references)

Dutch

nicht (cousin). (various references)

Esperanto

nevino. (various references)

Faeroese

systurdóttir, bróðurdóttir. (various references)

Farsi 

خویش وقوم مونث , دختربرادریاخواهروغیره . (various references)

Finnish

veljellitytär, sisarentytär. (various references)

French

nièce. (various references)

Frisian

omkesizzer (nephew), muoikesizzer (nephew). (various references)

German

Nichte. (various references)

Greek 

ανιψιά, ανηψιά, ανεψιά, ανίψι (nephew). (various references)

Hebrew 

אחינית, בת אח, נכדנית. (various references)

Hungarian

unokahúg (cousin, grand-niece). (various references)

Icelandic

systurdóttir, bróðurdóttir. (various references)

Indonesian

kemenakan perempuan. (various references)

Inuktitut

angaq. (various references)

Italian

nipote (grandchild, granddaughter, grandson, nephew). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

姪 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

めい (command, dark, decree, destiny, life). (various references)

Korean 

조카딸. (various references)

Macedonian

vnuka. (various references)

Manx

inneen vraarey, inneen shayrey. (various references)

Maya

x soop. (various references)

Norwegian

niese, søskenbarn (nephew). (various references)

Papiamen

subrina. (various references)

Pig Latin

iecenay.(various references)

Portuguese

sobrinha. (various references)

Provencal

neboda. (various references)

Romanian

nepoatå (granddaughter), nepoatã (granddaughter). (various references)

Russian 

племянница. (various references)

Samoan

tama o le tuafafine. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sinovica, sestričina, bratanica. (various references)

Spanish

sobrina. (various references)

Swedish

systerdotter, brorsdotter. (various references)

Thai

หลานสาว. (various references)

Turkish

yeğen (nephew). (various references)

Turkmen 

яegenзi, яegen (nephew). (various references)

Ukrainian

небога, племінниця. (various references)

Vietnamese 

chị (nephew, sib, sister). (various references)

Welsh

nith. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "niece": nieces. (additional references)

Words ending with "niece": grandniece. (additional references)

Words containing "niece": grandnieces. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Niece" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fimeche, inebeg, Ineka, inese, inesse, insece, neace, Neca, necce, Necci, nece, necel, neci, neco, Neebee, Neecct, Neeme, neice, neiche, Neico, neige, neine, neise, neisi, newca, Ngeze, Niace, niae, nica, nicaf, nicea, niceic, nicen, nicf, nici, nico, nicoe, nicu, nicv, Nidecker, nieche, niecte, Niekirk, Niemen, niene, Niepce, Niepel, Nierc, niese, niesi, niete, nieve, nilete, Niobe, Nitech, nitee, niue, Nivc, noec, noyce, nuace, nuice, nuiese, Nycb, nyce, Nyctea, nyse, Ondieki, siece, viece. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cine, nice.

-2 letters: cee, ice, nee.

-3 letters: en, in, ne.

+1 letter: edenic, entice, evince, icemen, nieces.

+2 letters: benefic, centile, centime, cervine, cineole, codeine, decline, eccrine, eirenic, elenchi, endemic, enteric, enticed, enticer, entices, epicene, eucaine, eugenic, eupneic, evinced, evinces, faience, fiancee, generic, genetic, incense, leucine, licence, license, licente, necktie, recline, science, selenic, senecio, silence, sincere.

+3 letters: agencies, agenetic, ambience, audience, benedick, benedict, benefice, bernicle, caffeine, ceinture, cenobite, centesis, centiare, centiles, centimes, cheeking, cheeping, cheering, cheesing, chenille, cicerone, cindered, cineaste, cineoles, cineplex, cleeking, codeines, coinhere, conceive, cooeeing, creatine, creeling, creeping, croceine, cysteine, decennia, declined, decliner, declines, defiance, denticle, deviance, dezinced, echidnae, echinate, ecumenic, ejecting, ejection, electing, election, elenchic, elenctic, emceeing, eminence, eminency, enactive, encaenia, enceinte, encipher, encircle, endemics, endermic, enneadic, enriched, enricher, enriches, enthetic, enticers, enuretic, epicenes, epigenic, erecting, erection, erogenic, eucaines, eugenics, euphenic, eupnoeic, evection, evidence, evincive, exigence, exigency, exocrine, faiences, fencible, fiancees, fleecing, frenetic, generics, genetics, genocide, gentrice, incensed, incenses, incenter, incepted, increase, increate, indecent, indictee, inductee, infected, infecter, injected, insecure, invected, iterance, leeching, lenience, leniency, lenticel, leucines, licenced, licencee, licencer, licences, licensed, licensee, licenser, licenses, lichened, medicine, narceine, necklike, neckline, neckties, neotenic, neoteric, nescient, niceness, niceties, nickeled, nickered, overnice, patience, peacenik, pectines, penciled, penciler, phenetic, pinecone, prentice, pulicene, quercine, receding, reclined, recliner, reclines, recoined, reincite, reinduce, reinfect, reinject, reliance, reticent, richened, salience, sapience, sciences, seceding, secretin, seicento, senecios, sickened, sickener, silenced, silencer, silences, sincerer, sinecure, sithence, sixpence, specimen, tenesmic, terpenic, vaccinee, vernicle, violence.