rew
/ɹuː/
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Wales/ɹɪʊ̯/
rew is the obsolete or dialectal form of row.
rew is the simple past of row.
rew is the abbreviation of rewind.
Meaning of row
Noun (1)
row (plural rows)
- A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.
- And there were windows in three rows.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings vii:4
- Specifically, a line of buildings on a street; also, the street itself (especially in street names)
- A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
Noun (2)
row (plural rows)
Noun (3)
row (plural rows)
- A noisy argument.
- There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
- Synonyms:
- argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match
Meaning of rewind
Verb
rewind (third-person singular simple present rewinds, present participle rewinding, simple past and past participle rewound)
- To wind (something) again.
- A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind.2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 440
- To wind back, of something clocklike or recordlike, like a cassette, tape, film; especially to then replay or relive.
- Let's rewind the clock to an earlier time.
- To regress the state of playback of a recording.
- I've rewound the audiobook to the start of the chapter.
- To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.
- If I had a time machine / And if life was a movie scene / I'd rewind, and I'd tell me / "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un"2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee, “Time Machine”, in Lights Out, performed by Ingrid Michaelson
Proper noun capitalized: Rew
Rew (plural Rews)
- A surname.
Forms of rew
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | rews |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Rews |
Words that rhyme with rew
Questions about rew
- What does rew mean?
- Rew means a surname.
- What is rew the obsolete or dialectal form of?
- Rew is the obsolete or dialectal form of row.
- What part of speech is rew?
- Rew is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce rew?
- Rew is pronounced /ɹuː/.
Words near rew in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rew (page history and authors); Rew (page history and authors); row (page history and authors); rewind (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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