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mews

/mjuːz/

mews noun: an alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. Also the plural of mew.

Noun

mews (plural mews or mewses)

  1. (UK) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
    • What penned them there, with all the plain to choose?
      No foot-print leading to that horrid mews,
      None out of it.1855, Robert Browning, chapter XXIII, in Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
    • It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, pages 110–111
  2. A place where birds of prey are housed.

Also used as

mews is also the plural of mew.

mews is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of mew.

Forms of mews

pluralmews
pluralmewses

Origin of mews

From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross, which is the plural of mew (“falcon cage”).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Phrases with mews

Words that rhyme with mews

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Questions about mews

What does mews mean?
Mews means an alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
What part of speech is mews?
Mews is a noun.
How do you pronounce mews?
Mews is pronounced /mjuːz/.
What is the plural of mews?
The plural of mews is mews.

Words near mews in the dictionary

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  4. MEWP
  5. MEWPs
  6. mews
  7. mews up
  8. mewses
  9. Mewshaw
  10. Mewuk
  11. Mewuks

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