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noun

ˈnich How to pronounce niche (audio)
Definition of nichenext
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as in place
a situation or activity for which a person or thing is best suited after several false starts, she finally found her niche in the restaurant business

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as in alcove
a hollowed-out space in a wall statues of various saints occupy the niches lining the abbey's many corridors

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as in habitat
the place where a plant or animal is usually or naturally found the platypus's niche is the waters of eastern Australia and Tasmania

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niche

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verb

as in to locate

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Recent Examples of niche
Noun
McDonald’s strategy In launching a caramel apple pie latte, McDonald’s seems to have carved out its niche. — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026 Some niches within the trucking sector benefit more than others. — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026 Rattlesnakes fill an important niche in the area’s ecosystem by targeting prey that other predators cannot access. — Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2026 Football, after all, provides a level of profile and recognition billionaires don’t get outside their own sector, which can often be a niche. — James Horncastle, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for niche
Recent Examples of Synonyms for niche
  1. place
  2. alcove
  3. habitat
  4. locate
  5. job
  6. home
  7. establish
  8. groove
Noun
  • With the imminent departure of Messi and Ronaldo from the scene, there’s a battle to push forward the next global superstars to take those places.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The owner, in this case, plans to live in the place themselves.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of place
Noun
  • One standout here is the soaking tub in the tiled bathroom, set into an arched alcove and accompanied by a porthole window that lets the sunlight filter in.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Unlike Radica's Moonlander X and its partial alcove with storage shelf, the Stargate brings aboard a full sleeper alcove below the telescopic-lift hard roof.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of alcove
Noun
  • On the day the plan was presented, the commission first had to review schematics for a new mesh enclosure for an Arabian-leopard habitat at the National Zoo.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Black rat snakes occupy an expansive range of habitats, from swamps and marshes to forests and fields.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of habitat
Verb
  • Metcalf believes there is another civilization, a secret one, located underneath the ice of Antarctica.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Police told the station that the gunfire may be connected to an argument that occurred at Lavou Lounge, a bar located near the Sam's Club.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of locate
Noun
  • Jeffrey Katzenberg, then a studio executive at Paramount Pictures, hand-picked the Happy Days star for the job, but at the time, Winkler had a bad feeling about accepting it.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
  • And Kyle was doing a great job of dialing up the right play calls.
    — Vic Tafur, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of job
Noun
  • The brutal shotgun killings took place in 1989 inside the family's Beverly Hills home.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Verbruggen made his 77th Premier League appearance in succession in Saturday’s 1-1 home draw against Leeds.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of home
Verb
  • Edgecombe established himself as one of the league’s best rookies.
    — Tony Jones, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Researchers need to establish what remains in the purified water and whether those substances could affect drug quality or patient safety.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of establish
Noun
  • First, the continuous scouring action of the water jet removes slag and oxidized sputtering residues, producing a clean processing interface with smooth inner walls and vertical groove profiles.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Freddy straddled all these worlds, observing their points of intersection and grooves of adjacency.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
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