niche

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A specialized area or position that suits a person or business well.

   The small bakery found its niche selling gluten-free cakes.

2. 2
   adj

   Appealing to a small, specialized group rather than the general public.

   The magazine covers niche hobbies like vintage radio repair.

3. 3
   noun

   A shallow hollow set into a wall, often to hold a statue or ornament.

   A small statue stood in a niche above the doorway.

Unadapted borrowing from French niche, from Middle French niche, from Old French niche, from nicher (“to make a nest”) (modern French nicher), from Vulgar Latin *nīdicāre, from Latin nīdus (“nest”). Doublet of nidus and nide via Latin and nest via Proto-Indo-European; also related to nyas.

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