Mews

Pronunciation

• enPR: myoÍžoz, IPA: /mjuːz/
• Rhymes: -uːz
• Homophones: muse

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

Full definition of mews

Noun

1. (British) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
• 1922, Virginia Woolf, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 106It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.
2. (falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.

Plural noun, see mew.

Noun

plural

1. Plural of mew

See mew.

Verb

1. mews

   (third-person singular of mew)

Anagrams

• smew