What's the difference between aunt and niece?

Aunt


Definition:

  • (n.) The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
  • (n.) An old woman; and old gossip.
  • (n.) A bawd, or a prostitute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The muscle fibers were hypotrophic and predominantly of type I. Biopsy specimens of the muscles of the mother and maternal aunt had increased numbers of centrally located nuclei.
  • (2) She comes from the "cursed" political dynasty in Pakistan : her grandfather, the former president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed in 1979, three years before Fatima was born; her father, the radical politician Murtaza Bhutto, was shot dead by police in 1996; and her aunt, the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed in a bombing in 2007.
  • (3) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
  • (4) Semantically congruent situations consisted of adjective-noun pairs that were not highly predictable but were nonetheless plausible (e.g., GOOD-AUNT).
  • (5) His report, which has been obtained by The Observer, shows that Mubanga had asked for his sister, aunt and brother to testify in his defence.
  • (6) I'll try to visit Jeffrey when I can and if I have kids in the future I'll tell them the whole story, and I hope that I can introduce them to Jeffrey and their aunts and uncles.
  • (7) In the patient muscular biochemistry revealed a major reduction in NADH oxydase activity and in the aunt a diminished level of carnitin compatible with carnitin deficiency.
  • (8) Like her bolder aunt Marine, the timid Maréchal-Le Pen complained that she suffered greatly from taunts at school that her grandad was a “fascist”.
  • (9) My father had died six months previously and on the day of my birth my great-aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood, arrived unexpectedly at my mother's house.
  • (10) Their aunt Teema Kurdi, a hairdresser in Vancouver, heard the news from her brother Mohammad’s wife, Ghuson.
  • (11) She also spoke of her "suspicion" of memoir as a form: a form that her younger sister the novelist Margaret Drabble – who spoke at the festival on Thursday but was notably absent from Byatt's event – undertook in her 2009 book The Pattern in the Carpet, about the writers' aunt Phyllis.
  • (12) We report on 2 male propositi, their mothers, and a maternal aunt with a new skeletal dysplasia associated with a unique pattern of digital malformation, variable mild short stature, and mild bowleg with proximal overgrowth of the fibula.
  • (13) The novel, first published in 1911, features the escapades of a 15-year-old hero who impregnates three women, one of them his own aunt.
  • (14) Similar phenotypes were present in a maternal aunt and uncle.
  • (15) The mother, aunt, and grandmother had varied features of the condition.
  • (16) An uncle of the boy died at the age of 42, an aunt at the age of 16 years, both of atrophic kidneys.
  • (17) This paper evaluates the perceived genetic risk, the perceived burden, the impact on reproductive decision making, and the attitudes of aunts and uncles of a child with cystic fibrosis toward carrier identification, prenatal diagnosis, and pregnancy termination.
  • (18) Karimova blamed her latest problems firmly on her mother, who she claimed had promised to "destroy" her for trying (unsuccessfully) in October to prevent the arrest of Akbarali Abdullayev, Gulnara Karimova's cousin and Tatyana Karimova's nephew, who she suggested knew too much about the allegedly shady business affairs of his aunt.
  • (19) The long discussion between Elizabeth Bennet and her aunt is remarkably open: "But can you think that Lydia is so lost to everything but love of him, as to consent to live with him on any other terms than marriage?"
  • (20) When I was younger I used to call them aunt and uncle, but they were actually sister and brothers."

Niece


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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
  • (2) But Abaaoud, the man thought to be a key planner for the group behind the Paris attacks, boasted to a niece that he had brought around 90 militants back to Europe with him.
  • (3) In this study, six patients, the proband, his four siblings and a niece, representing a kindred of fifty-two subjects, were examined for aymptomatic cutaneous nodules mainly on the back and chest.
  • (4) Even more haunting were stories from his wife's village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood.
  • (5) Murrawah Johnson, 20, who is Burragubba’s niece, took time out from revising for her university finals to meet the bankers.
  • (6) But Ukip is not the NF nor Trump, Nigel Farage is not Le Pen, father, daughter or niece Marion.
  • (7) The insert consisted of 8 extra copies of a repeating octapeptide coding sequence in the region between codons 51 and 91; it was identified in the proband and a presently unaffected at-risk niece by full sequencing of the open reading frame, and was visualized electrophoretically in the proband and 6 of 12 at-risk relatives.
  • (8) If he comes back it’s like he’s got away with it.” In the club’s superstore, Zak Dilly and his girlfriend Hannah Betts – who have just chosen a babygrow for their niece with the slogan “Mummy taught me ABC, Daddy taught me SUFC” – are clear about whose side they are on.
  • (9) After she died I was sent away to a school and six years on I received a letter – as you do – saying that a Mr John Jarndyce wanted me to be a companion to his niece and nephew.
  • (10) Enoch Mark, a Christian pastor whose daughter and niece are among the kidnapped, told Agence France-Presse “Chibok was taken by Boko Haram.
  • (11) Without sounding like a cynical heartbroken niece, I welcome the Sports Charter and above all hope it will finally bring tolerance and change in one of the most loved games in the world.
  • (12) Mariela Castro, the daughter of President Raúl Castro and niece of Fidel Castro, has given an unprecedented "no" vote in the Cuban parliament to a workers' rights bill she felt didn't go far enough to prevent discrimination against people with HIV or with unconventional gender identities.
  • (13) Binnie has said that even when he was young, he looked like a middle-aged woman; she’d pretend to be his niece.
  • (14) I understand there are rules about uniform,” said one mother, Sian Williams, whose year 7 daughter managed to pass the uniform check, “but to be so strict and allow children to feel that way on their first day of school must have been petrifying for them.” Another parent, Phillipa Turner, wrote on Facebook: “My niece was one of these children sent home today, first day of a new school and she didn’t even make it into the school gates.
  • (15) His niece showed the typical neurological and metabolic abnormalities of WD.
  • (16) She is the granddaugher of Jean-Marie Le Pen and the niece of Marine Le Pen, the new party leader, who won the party's highest ever presidential election score of 17.9% in April.
  • (17) It has also emerged that the current director of public prosecutions in Northern Ireland, Barra McGrory QC, was Gerry Adams's solicitor in 2007 at a time when the Sinn Féin leader was still allegedly holding back information on his niece's allegations about his brother Liam.
  • (18) Less frequent are uncle and nephew or uncle and niece and, again less frequent, aunt and nephew or niece; grandparents and grandchildren were rarely found.
  • (19) Only when her 14 year old "niece" was investigated (1) and treated for similar problems she realized hers.
  • (20) Fifty years later, Frostie, as his aristocratic nephews and nieces sometimes called him (his wife, Carina, was a daughter of the Duke of Norfolk), was still warding off brickbats from high-minded critics.