great-niece

1. 1.

   a daughter of your niece or nephew

   Synonymsgrandniece

   Broaderniece

Questions about great-niece

What does great-niece mean?

great-niece means "a daughter of your niece or nephew".

How many syllables are in great-niece?

great-niece has 3 syllables: gre-at--niece. The stress falls on "gre".

What is another word for great-niece?

Close synonyms include grandniece. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is great-niece a common word?

great-niece is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.