What do you call a niece's daughter?

grandniece. noun. a daughter of one's nephew or niece; granddaughter of one's brother or sister.
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What do you call your niece's child?

The daughter of your niece is also your niece, but in a second degree. If you have any children, then your niece is their cousin in the first degree, or sister cousin. The daughter of your niece is to your children a second cousin, according to a regular consanguinity chart.
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Is it great-niece or grand niece?

Grandniece and great-niece are interchangeable terms that describe the daughter of a person's niece or nephew. Grandniece aligns more traditionally with the term grandson, but "great" in the expression great-niece means one generation removed, according to the website Grammarphobia.
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What would I be to my niece's baby?

Your niece's son is your grand nephew. Your niece's grandchild is your great-grand nephew/niece. You would be his great aunt and he would be your great nephew.
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What is considered a grandniece?

Definition of grandniece

: a granddaughter of one's brother or sister.
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What do I call my niece's husband?

If you are neutral, call him your nephew-in-law. If you want to telegraph negativity, call him "my brother's daughter's husband". This accomplishes the same job as calling him "my niece's (pejorative word) husband" without being so impolite as to use a pejorative word.
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Is it great nephew or grand nephew?

Grandnephew definition

The grandson of one's brother or sister; great-nephew. A son of one's nephew or niece. Grandson of one's sibling.
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What does grandnephew mean?

Definition of grandnephew

: a grandson of one's brother or sister.
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What is grimness?

the quality of being frightful. something hard to endure. synonyms: asperity, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity. types: sternness. the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding.
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What is another word for grandness?

In this page you can discover 19 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for grandness, like: splendor, glory, grandeur, grandiosity, greatness, majesty, praise, impressiveness, magnificence, richness and brilliance.
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Is there such thing as grand nephew?

Noun. A grandson of one's sibling; a son of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's grandson: fraternal grandnephew.
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What do you call your nephew's wife?

The wife of your nephew has no blood relationship to you. It would be most accurate to refer to her as your nephew's wife. She is also your sibling's daughter-in-law.
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What relation is your nephew's child to you?

Your nephew's son is commonly referred to as your grandnephew. Since you have the same bloodline, he is a blood relative to you as long as he is your sibling's offspring.
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What is meaning of grand son?

Definition of grandson

: the son of one's son or daughter.
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Can you marry your niece?

An avunculate marriage is a marriage with a parent's sibling or with one's sibling's child—i.e., between an uncle or aunt and their niece or nephew. Such a marriage may occur between biological (consanguine) relatives or between persons related by marriage (affinity).
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What do we call sister's daughter?

Your niece is the daughter of your sister or brother.
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What do we call brothers daughter?

Definitions of niece. a daughter of your brother or sister. Antonyms: nephew. a son of your brother or sister.
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What is my nephew's daughter called?

a daughter of one's nephew or niece; grandniece.
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What relation is my cousins child to me?

From the angle of family history, your cousin's child is your first cousin once removed, yet the normal name of your sibling's children to call them by is your niece or nephew. They would call you aunt or uncle, and your kids might essentially call them cousins. Even though obviously, they are truly second cousins.
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Is there such a thing as a grand aunt?

2. The siblings of YOUR grandparents are your granduncle or grandaunt, not great uncle nor great aunt. Similarly, the siblings of YOUR great-grandparents are YOUR great- granduncle or great-grandaunt.
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Is Nibling a word?

Nibling is a gender-neutral term used to refer to a child of one's sibling as a replacement for "niece" or "nephew". The word is thought to have been coined in the early 1950s, but was relatively obscure for several decades before being revived in recent years.
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Is my husband niece my niece?

At least in the US, your spouse's niece would be considered your niece as well, and you would be their aunt or uncle, despite the lack of a blood relationship.
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Can you have a nephew in law?

Nephew-in-law definition

Husband of someone's niece. Son-in-law of someone's brother-in-law.
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What is great great niece?

a granddaughter of one's nephew or niece.
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What's a better word for beautiful?

admirable, adorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, beauteous, bewitching, captivating, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, delightful, divine, elegant, enthralling, enticing, excellent, exquisite, fair, fascinating, fetching, fine, foxy, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, grand, handsome, ideal, inviting ...
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