mews

/ mjuːz /

noun

1. a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings

2. the buildings around a mews

3. informal,  an individual residence in a mews

Word History and Origins

Origin of mews¹

C14: pl of _mew ³, originally referring to royal stables built on the site of hawks' mews at Charing Cross in London

Example Sentences

Chandler Investments Limited claimed the embassy left a rented Wellington mews house without covering cleaning and other costs.

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"Now, doesn't that look normal?" she mews to the studio audience as the camera zooms in on her creation.

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Raspy grunts, high-pitched mews, guttural barks and the occasional roar bellowed toward my group of hikers at Año Nuevo State Park, a remote strip of coastal bluffs about 60 miles south of San Francisco.

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It is one of four properties they are believed to own, including a four-bedroom mews house in London, where the couple have lived with their two daughters.

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What I did not expect was Strout’s disarming warble of a laugh, which filled the Friedrich Agency’s book-lined mews house on the Upper West Side and triggered a dimple on her right cheek.

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