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# nephew

«nephew» in Mova's school dictionary: **the son of your brother or sister** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a nephew, nephews)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your nephew is the son of your brother or sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nephew/#m1)

2) Your nephew can also be the son of your husband's or wife's brother or sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nephew/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In family trees in school, a nephew is one generation below you. In everyday life, aunts and uncles have nephews and nieces. Phrases: my nephew, nephews and nieces, great-nephew.

### examples

- My aunt has two nephews: me and my brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nephew/#x1)
- Uncle Pat took his nephew fishing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nephew/#x2)
- My nephew is only three years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nephew/#x3)
- She bought presents for all her nephews and nieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nephew/#x4)
- If you have 3 sisters and each has 2 sons, you have 6 nephews. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nephew/#x5)
- My mum's sister's son is her nephew and my cousin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nephew/#x6)
- "My dear nephew," he said, "your story gives me some hope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nephew/#x7)

### note

Countable noun. The girl version is «niece». Your nephew is your parents' grandson and your own child's cousin. Do not confuse with cousin: your aunt's son is your cousin, but you are your aunt's nephew or niece.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nephew» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nephew/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.