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View synonyms for mews

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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
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Example Sentences

She knows she needs to do something to dispel her dark thoughts and decides on a visit to the Royal Mews after luncheon.

His most recent job in London was at the Mews of Mayfair, where the kitchen put out elegant renditions of modern British cooking.

She showed the kitten to Eric, handling its tiny paws gently, hushing its plaintive mews with ridiculous pet names.

And beyond them the low houses of a mews which ran at the back.

There, after some trouble, he obtained information directing him to the neighbouring mews.

The gulls and mews clamored rapturously, and squabbled with gay zest over the choicer prizes of their fishing.

A wild chorus of mews drowned his words, and with the mews were mingled the shrieks of the musk rats.

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