Niche
[niːʃ;nɪtʃ] or [niʃ]
Definition
(noun.) (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species).
(noun.) a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it; 'he found his niche in the academic world'.
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Definition
(n.) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Nook, recess.
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Definition
n. a recess in a wall for a statue vase &c.: a person's proper place or condition in life or public estimation one's appointed or appropriate place.—v.t. to place in a niche.—adj. Niched placed in a niche.
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Examples
- From the niche a single object protruded into the light from the candles on the table. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The flag with the inscription SLEARY'S HORSE-RIDING was there; and the Gothic niche was there; but Mr. Sleary was not there. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Sleary himself, a stout modern statue with a money-box at its elbow, in an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- She beckoned the Jew towards her, as she reached down the shrub-bottle from its niche, and whispered: 'Child, or woman? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- To-night the watering-pot might rest in its niche by the well: a small rain had been drizzling all the afternoon, and still it fell fast and quietly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We saw a new statue put in its niche yesterday, alongside of one which had been standing these four hundred years, they said. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Altogether a man who seems made for his niche, mamma; sagacious, and strong, as becomes a great tradesman. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- With this prospect before him, we shall get Fred into the right niche somehow, and I hope I shall live to join your hands. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Not far from here was a niche where they used to preserve a piece of the True Cross, but it is gone, now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The angels that I know are creatures of unstable fancy--they will not fit in niches of substantial stone. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But the niches that had contained the ashes of these renowned crusaders were empty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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