Niece
[niːs] or [nis]
Definition
(n.) A relative, in general; especially, a descendant, whether male or female; a granddaughter or a grandson.
(n.) A daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
Typist: Virginia
Definition
n. (fem. of Nephew) the daughter of a brother or sister: (orig.) a granddaughter.
Typist: Richard
Unserious Contents or Definition
For a woman to dream of her niece, foretells she will have unexpected trials and much useless worry in the near future.
Editor: Oswald
Examples
- The lasses behind; the niece in a front room. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No happiness of son or niece could make her wish the marriage. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Mrs. Peniston, however, did not suffer from her niece's adaptability. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Only three women--his niece and two servants. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Well, perhaps it will be for the best, as your sister, niece, and Mr Carriston are on board, and won't care about being mixed up in a battle. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- As soon as the vehicle and its driver had withdrawn so far as to be beyond all possible reach of her voice, Mrs. Yeobright turned to her niece. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If he had never seen your 'Polly,' others might and would have pleased him--your niece, Miss Fanshawe, for instance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- All your attentions to the niece--rather rude, than otherwise, to the aunt--only way of deceiving the old ones. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Last Thursday (May 7th) I, my niece, and your two brothers, went to walk in Plainpalais. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Martha Endell--side by side with whom, he would not have seen his dear niece, Ham had told me, for all the treasures wrecked in the sea. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The door was opened; the pony-carriage was ordered; shawls and bonnets were demanded; Mr. Helstone called for his niece. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But the niece suspected his scheme. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I said, my niece is very young, and that kind of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My niece is fond of your charming art. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Emma and Harriet went together; Miss Bates and her niece, with the Eltons; the gentlemen on horseback. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Her nieces and nephews can't have so much claim as my sister's. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Do you think my dear nieces pretty? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- My nephews and nieces! Jane Austen. Emma.
- And there's none more ready to nurse you than your own sister and your own nieces, if you'd only say the word. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Phillips visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a store of felicity unknown before. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She goes to Germany to-morrow with one of your nieces for a little polishing up in her education. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The children of a first cousin are your nephews and nieces, just the same as the children of your brothers and sisters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The spinster aunt uttered a piercing scream, burst into an hysteric laugh, and fell backwards in the arms of her nieces. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She has two nieces of her own. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
Typist: Yvette