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Definition

a smaller market within a larger market — such as the market for scissors designed for people who are left-handed

or:

a role for which someone is especially well-suited

or:

a shallow recess, cranny or crevice

More rarely, niche can refer to a role for a species within an ecosystem.

She found her niche in the academic world.

niche = a role for which someone is especially well-suited

The statue is in a niche in the living room.
...some companies, such as eBay, are big winners in niches no rational planner could have predicted.
Michael J. Mandel -- Rational Exuberance
But now there came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado

niche = smaller area within

They climbed a steep trail where niches for toes and fingers had been worn into the yellow sandrock after centuries of use.
Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony

niches = a shallow recess or hole

On both sides, hollow niches lined the walls.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons

niches = shallow recesses (each like a single space built into the wall to hold something)

Little goblins sat in niches in the rock.
David Almond -- Clay

niches = shallow recesses, crannies or crevices

Candles burned in niches in the walls.
David Almond -- Kit's Wilderness

niches = shallow recessed shelves

If, after long lapse of years, the right seems to be in our power, we find no niche to set it in.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
Tried to tell me she was glad I'd found my niche.
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
By the great commercializing of printing you've found a harmless, polite occupation for every genius who might have carved his own niche.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
At times the sanctuary extended into the core of the tower so that the niche with the image was located within the base of the temple tower.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
She let the horses graze, then hobbled them for the night and made herself as comfortable as she could in a niche between two rocks.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
This time she led him to the other side of the gods, to a niche in the wall where the white panel had fallen out.
Terry Pratchett -- Nation
Something like a natural fountain, maybe, a bubbling-up of crystal-clear water cupped in a niche of ancient mossy rocks.
Mal Peet -- Tamar
Westminster Abbey was a tangled warren of mausoleums, perimeter chambers, and walk-in burial niches.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
Along the dark wall at the back of this temple or gallery were placed six niches for statues, which Odintsov had proceeded to order from abroad.
Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
Duane worked half-way down to the level, and, well hidden in a niche, he settled himself to watch both trail and valley.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
The handles of a few knives and other tools protruded from niches in the walls.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
Jason moved to the row of niches.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena

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