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Niche

noun

A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it.

A small concavity. Synonyms: corner, recess, recession.

An enclosure that is set back or indented. Synonym: recess.

(ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species). Synonym: ecological niche.

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"Niche" Quotes from Famous Books

... journey ended. They came to a niche in the slimy wall. Up into this the men climbed, dragging him after them. The man above was cautiously tapping on what appeared to be solid masonry. To King's surprise a section of the wall suddenly opened before them. He was ...

— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... pass through an uncomfortable stage like this, in which neither they nor their friends quite know what niche in life they can best fill—sometimes, because of their own undisciplined characters; sometimes, because the niche itself seems to be lacking. Whether this stage be their misfortune or their fault, ...

— Stray Thoughts for Girls • Lucy H. M. Soulsby

... duty to the nation and the emergency never more clearly than he knew his own defects. Canada never before had a mediocrity of such eminence; a man who without a spark of genius devoted a high talent to a nation's work so well that he just about wins a niche in our Valhalla—if we have one. It was the war that almost finished Borden; and it was the war that ...

— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino

... own niche and standing one above the other, were what looked like hundreds of golden men with gleaming eyes. At first until the utter stillness undeceived him, he thought that they must be men. Then he understood that this was what they had been; now they were corpses wrapped in sheets ...

— The Yellow God - An Idol of Africa • H. Rider Haggard

... storm, it was supposed that the ill-fated man went to the very edge of the small, rocky island on which the light-house stood, and was swept out by a wave. This supposition seemed the more likely as his boat was not found next day in its rocky niche. The place of light-house keeper had become vacant. It was necessary to fill this place at the earliest moment possible, since the light-house had no small significance for the local movement as well as for vessels going from New York to Panama. Mosquito Bay abounds in sandbars ...

— Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish • Various

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