Mews
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /mjuːz/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mews is a noun meaning (British) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
Meaning
(British) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
More Meanings
- (falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.
- plural of mew
- third-person singular simple present indicative of mew
Example Sentences
It was here in the kitchen, in the passage In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market place[…].
What penned them there, with all the plain to choose? No foot-print leading to that horrid mews, None out of it.
It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.
[Pavilion Road is] a cobbled mews lined with butchers, cheesemongers, florists and cafés offering a village-like counterpoint to the grandeur of the main thoroughfare.
Word Forms
- mewses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include meow, miaow, miaou, stables, meute, mease.
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