## Meanings
1. A specialized area or position that suits a person or business well.
2. Appealing to a small, specialized group rather than the general public.
3. A shallow hollow set into a wall, often to hold a statue or ornament.

## Examples
- The small bakery found its niche selling gluten-free cakes.
- The magazine covers niche hobbies like vintage radio repair.
- A small statue stood in a niche above the doorway.

## Derived Forms
- econiche
- enniche
- macroniche
- meganiche
- microniche
- multiniche
- nicheless
- nicheness
- nichey
- nichification
- subniche
- unniche

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *sed-
- Root: niche
- Root: *nīdicāre
- Root: nīdus

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Niche is an 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. In present-day use, it can mean a specialized area or position that suits a person or business well, or appealing to a small, specialized group rather than the general public. Derived formations include econiche, enniche, macroniche, meganiche, and microniche.

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