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Niche
Definitions
- 1 Pertaining to or intended for a market niche; having specific appeal; obscure.
"niche products"
- 1 A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.
"On the margin of this long tract, are abundance of shrines and images, defended from the injuries of the weather by niches of stone wherein they are placed."
- 2 an enclosure that is set back or indented wordnet
- 3 Any similar position, literal or figurative.
- 4 a small concavity wordnet
- 5 Specifically, a cremation niche; a columbarium.
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- 6 (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species) wordnet
- 7 A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
- 8 a position particularly well suited to the person who or organization which occupies it wordnet
- 9 Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business. broadly
"Whitney, mother of Xavier, is a real estate titan who, along with her British husband, has found her niche selling luxurious underground bunkers to wealthy clients looking for a safe space to hunker down in the event of a climate apocalypse."
- 10 An arrow woven into a prayer rug pointing in the direction of qibla.
- 1 To place in a niche. transitive
"a niched vase"
- 2 To specialize in a niche, or particular narrow section of the market. transitive
"Product differentiation will be mostly limited to market niching and fashion."
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.
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.
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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