[niːs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law
(e.g: having never married or had children, he left his inheritance to his two nieces)


Phrases:

Origin:
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