mews

English

Pronunciation
  • enPR: myo͞oz, IPA(key): /mjuːz/
  • Rhymes: -uːz
  • Homophone: muse

Etymology 1

From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross.

Noun

mews (plural mews or mewses)

  1. (Britain) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
    • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXIII:
      What penned them there, with all the plain to choose? / No foot-print leading to that horrid mews, / None out of it.
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 106
      It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.
    • 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:
      It was here in the kitchen, in the passage
      In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market place […] .
  2. (falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.
Translations
References
  • “mews” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

Etymology 2

Plural noun, see mew.

Noun

mews

  1. plural of mew

Etymology 3

See mew.

Verb

mews

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mew

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