Mew Definition

myo͝o
mews
noun
mews
A cage, as for hawks while molting.
Webster's New World
A secret place or den.
Webster's New World
A place of confinement.
Webster's New World
A group of buildings originally containing private stables, often converted into residential apartments.
American Heritage
A small street, alley, or courtyard on which such buildings stand.
American Heritage
verb
mews
To confine in or as in a cage; shut up or conceal.
Webster's New World
To molt.
Webster's New World
To make this sound.
Webster's New World
To shed or change (feathers); molt.
Webster's New World
Shakespeare.
More pity that the eagle should be mewed.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
interjection
A cat's cry.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Mew

Noun

Singular:
mew
Plural:
mews

Origin of Mew

  • From Middle English mewe, from Old English mÇ£w, from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull") (compare West Frisian meau, mieu, Dutch meeuw, German Möwe), from *maiwijanÄ… 'to shout, mew' (compare Middle English mawen 'to shout, mew', Middle Dutch mauwen, Middle High German māwen); akin to Latvian maût 'to roar', Old Church Slavonic myjati 'to mew'.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English meue from Old French mue from muer to molt from Latin mūtāre to change mei-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison"), from muer (“to moult").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English meue from Old English mǣw, mēu

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English meuen of imitative origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Onomatopoeic

    From Wiktionary

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