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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)

  1. 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
    1. Specifically, a line of buildings on a street; also, the street itself (especially in street names)
  2. A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
    Synonyms:
    line
    Antonyms:
    column

Noun (2)

row (plural rows)

  1. An act or instance of rowing.
    • I went for an early-morning row.
  2. Any of several thematically similar exercise movements performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.

Noun (3)

row (plural rows)

  1. (UK) A noisy argument.
    • There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

See all 12 meanings of row

Meaning of rewind

Verb

rewind (third-person singular simple present rewinds, present participle rewinding, simple past and past participle rewound)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) 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
  2. (intransitive, transitive) 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.
  3. (figuratively) To regress the state of playback of a recording.
    • I've rewound the audiobook to the start of the chapter.
  4. (figuratively) 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

See all 6 meanings of rewind

Proper noun capitalized: Rew

Rew (plural Rews)

  1. A surname.

Forms of rew

Noun
pluralrews
Proper noun
pluralRews

Words that rhyme with rew

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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

  1. revvs
  2. revvy
  3. revying
  4. revêtement
  5. revêtements
  6. rew
  7. Rewa
  8. rewade
  9. rewaded
  10. rewades
  11. rewading

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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