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Word: Niece
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin neptis ‘granddaughter’, feminine of nepos ‘nephew, grandson’ (see nephew), from an Indo-European root shared by Dutch nicht, German Nichte
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
niːs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law
Short Definition:daughter of one's brother or sister
Examples:- having never married or had children, he left his inheritance to his two nieces
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