DictionaryAI

nephew

noun
NEF-yoo/ˈnɛf.ju/UKNEV-yoo/ˈnɛv.ju/

Pluralnephews

3 meanings of nephew

Practice

  1. 1
    nouncountable
    The son of your brother or sister.

    My nephew just turned six last week.

    She took her two nephews to the zoo on Saturday.

    Note
  2. 2
    nouncountable
    The son of one of your cousins.

    My cousin's boy is the nephew I babysit on weekends.

    All my cousins' sons call me uncle, so they are my nephews.

  3. 3
    nounarchaic
    The son of your own child, also called a grandson.

    Grandfather left the farm to his nephew, his daughter's only son.

    Hir father many a time and oft would say my daughter deere, Of Nephewes thou my debtour art, their Graundsires heart to chéere.
    1567, Ovid, “The First Booke”Here, Nephewes means grandsons, the sons of his daughter.

    Similargrandson

    Note

Use it in a sentence

Write your own sentence with nephew, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.

Origin

It comes from Latin 'nepos', meaning nephew or grandson, through Old French 'neveu'. The 'ph' spelling was added later to match the Latin word.