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Niche

noun

A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it.

A small concavity. Synonyms: corner, recess, recession.

An enclosure that is set back or indented. Synonym: recess.

(ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species). Synonym: ecological niche.

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... Burns a niche among Scotland's saints, others would give him rank as one of her religious teachers. This claim, if not so absurd as the other, is hardly more tenable. The religion described by Burns in The Cotter's Saturday Night is, it should be remembered, his father's ...

— Robert Burns • Principal Shairp

... malatenti. negociate : negoci. neighbour : najbaro, proksimulo. "—hood," cxirkauxajxo. neither : nek. nerve : nervo. net : reto; tulo. nettle : urtiko. neuter : neuxtra. neutral : neuxtrala. news : sciigo, novajxo. "—paper," jxurnalo, gazeto. next : plejproksima, sekvanta. niche : nicxo. nightingale : najtingalo. noble : nobla. "-man," nobelo. nod : signodoni. noise : bruo. nonsense : sensencajxo. noon : tagmezo. noose : masxo. nor : nek. normal : norma, normala. north : nordo. ...

— The Esperanto Teacher - A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians • Helen Fryer

... we left her up there in her room, I turned and took a peek to see she was comfy, but she was down onto both knees before that china virgin on the niche over her bed." ...

— Barbarians • Robert W. Chambers

... There was an empty niche from which some old statue had fallen or been carried away hundreds of years ago, and she was thinking what strange people it must have looked down upon when it stood there, and how many hard struggles might have ...

— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens

... growth of flowering herbs and thorn. The pass was too high for the aloe and mesembryanthemum to flourish, and the lava-bed which floored it was yet too new to have clothed itself in any of the larger mountain-loving trees. Here they passed the night, in a shallow niche of rock with a fire before it; and the fire being visible from a long way off, no prowlers cared even ...

— In the Morning of Time • Charles G. D. Roberts

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