niece

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

your relatives
relativeAll my relatives gather every year for a family reunion.
extended familyHe has a very large extended family.
relationShe is a distant relation of his, though I don't quite remember how.
kinHe remained true to his kin.
mother's/father's side (of the family)I have aunts and uncles on my mother's side of the family.

Examples

He hit the headlines two years ago when he was arrested for selling drugs to the prime minister's nephew.
They were murmuring about the boss's nephew getting the job.他们在私下嘀咕老板的侄子得到了那份工作的事。
She'd always had a soft spot for her younger nephew.她一直很喜欢她的小侄子。
I watched my two-year-old nephew toddling around after his puppy.我看着两岁的侄子跟在他的小狗后面蹒跚地四处走。
I took my two-year old nephew down to the beach with his bucket and spade.我带两岁的小外甥去海滩，拿着他的小桶和铲子。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Family: relations in general
anti-family
aunt
auntie
baby daddy
baby mama
family man
father
fatherhood
filial
filially
kinship
kinsman
kinswoman
kith and kin
long-lost
relationship
relative
removed
second cousin
sib

nephew | American Dictionary

nephew
noun[ C ]
us/ˈnef·ju/
a son of someone’s brother or sister, or a son of someone’s husband’s or wife’s sister or brother

Examples of nephew

nephew
The maternal uncle might come and take the nephew out of his paternal household.
Her nephew's wife had come up to help her after the fall and would come up again to get her settled into residential care.
When a nephew was a suitor as well as a dependant, he worked even more for his uncle.
The relationships with nieces and nephews of those survivors who had married but had no children seemed to be associated with considerations of inheritance.
Only two survivors claimed in 1999 to see a niece or nephew weekly.
He had no phone but went to the pay phone to call his nephew every week.
Within these categories, patterns of relationships with children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews are described.
The bachelor uncle cares about his nieces and nephews.
This system may allow more variations in the disposal of assets, since more kin categories, such as siblings, grandchildren, nephews and nieces, are often beneficiaries.
In the last group, the carers were a neighbour, a son, a son and daughter-in-law, and a nephew and a niece.
In these cases, nieces and nephews seem to substitute for the absence of nearby daughters or sons.
The first is that in the hypothetical, both nephews are children.
In regard to older people, these included only adult children, and not siblings, nieces or nephews, or grandchildren.
A third family linked to the nephew's family by marriage came.
The old man, an arm encircling his nephew's shoulder and a hand enclosing his small bare feet, draws him into a shared intimacy.
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