Noun: niece
| Singular | niece |
| Plural | nieces |
Sample Sentences
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My niece just celebrated her 15th birthday.
Nouns inflected like niece
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
nece', French Nouns '
nièce', Latin Nouns '
neptis'.
Verbs referencing "niece"
Swedish Nouns
niece.