Ewe

Definitions: Ewe

Ewe

Noun

1. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.

2. A Kwa language spoken by the Ewe people in Ghana and Togo and Benin.

3. Female sheep.

Date "Ewe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Ewe

Domain	Definitions
Slang in 1811	EWE. A white ewe; a beautiful woman. An old ewe, drest lamb fashion; an old woman, drest like a young girl. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Ewe

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
EWE	German	Europäische Währungseinheit	Finance
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: Ewe

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Animal	Horse. (beast of burden); cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat.
Woman	Hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat, tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ewe

English words defined with "Ewe": Ewe-necked ♦ Theave ♦ Yowe. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Ewe": Fairy Rings ♦ Oseway ♦ swan neck. (references)

Etymologies containing "Ewe": Theave ♦ Yowe. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Ewe" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (a, a few minutes, a moment, a while, alike, all, all the same, equally, likewise, momentarily), Indonesian (copulate), Xhosa (Hallo, yes).

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Commercial Usage: Ewe

Domain	Title
Books	African Majesty: The Textile Art of the Ashanti and Ewe (reference) Do Ewe Share? (reference) Kinship & Marriage Among the Anlo Ewe (Monographs on Social Anthropology, No. 37.) (reference) Kinship and Marriage Among the Anlo Ewe (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, No 37) (reference) Managing Your Ewe and Her Newborn Lambs (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Ewe

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Photo Album: Ewe

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	"A Monster Born of a Ewe". In: "Journal des Observations Physiques, Mathematiques et Botaniques ...." by Louis Feuillee, 1660-1732. Published in 1714. P. 242. Library Call Number Q115 .F43 1714. A "monster" observed by the author in Buenos Aires in 1708. The author was serious as he reported this creature to the King of France.Credit: Treasures of the Library.		Ewe with lamb.Credit: USDA.
	Ewe and lamb, Madison County, Montana.Credit: Library of Congress.		Ewe and newborn lamb, Madison County, Montana.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Ewe and newborn lamb, Madison County, Montana.Credit: Library of Congress.		Ewe and newborn lamb, Madison County, Montana.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Sheepherder with new born lamb and ewe in lambing shed. Dangberg Ranch, Douglas County, Nevada.Credit: Library of Congress.		Ranchman attending to ewe who is down. She dropped lamb the day before and he is determining if she might have twins. Junction, Texas. Kimble County.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ewe

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Other major operators in Germany are Tele2 Germany, Esprit Telekom, Tesion, RegioNet (a consortium of 6 regional and city carriers), EWE Tel, and Colt Telecom. (references)
Children	Ghana	It is found primarily among the ethnic Ewe group in the Volta Region. (references)
Civil Liberties	Ghana	In 2000 the Ho (Volta Region) DCE led a joint operation with police and health personnel to immunize the children at an Apostolic Faith of Kpalexose ("Well-rooted Faith" in the Ewe language) church against poliomyelitis. (references)
Economic History	Ghana	Ethnic groups: Akan, Ewe, Ga, Moshi-Dagomba. (references)
Minorities	Togo	Major ethnic groups include the Ewe (between 20 and 25 percent of the population), the Kabye (between 10 and 15 percent), the Kotokoli (between 10 and 15 percent), the Moba (between 10 to 15 percent), and the Mina (approximately 5 percent). (references)
	Togo	The Ewe and Mina are the largest ethnic groups in the southern region, where abundant rainfall and access to the sea have been conducive to farming and trade; the Kabye are the largest group in the drier, landlocked, less populous, and less prosperous northern region. (references)
Worker Rights	Togo	The majority of the country's trafficking victims are children from the poorest rural areas, particularly those of Cotocoli, Tchamba, Ewe, Kabye, and Akposso ethnicities and mainly from the Maritime, Plateau, and Central Regions. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ewe

"Ewe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Ewe" is used about 132 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	90.91%	120	29,358
Noun (proper)	9.09%	12	101,599
Total	100.00%	132	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Ewe

Expression using "Ewe": ewe lamb. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Ewe": ewe-grief, ewe-mutton, Ewe-necked.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ewe

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
ewe	87	ewe eye	3
cuddle ewe	59	anlo ewe	2
ewe love	6	disease ewe	2
awesome ewe	6	ewe woolie	2
cuddle ewe.com	4	it had to be ewe poster	2
ewe mating ram	4	ewe ovary	2
ewe picture	4	cuddle ewe underquilt	2
ewe tribe	3	country ewe	2
ewe and eye and friend	3	elegant ewe	2
ewe mating sheep	3	ewe horse in neck	2
ewe loch	3	ewe people	2
ewe tree	3	ewe sex	2
		can ewe sing	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ewe

Language		Translations for "Ewe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dele (fold, sheep, tup). (various references)

Arabic		‏نعجة (nanny goat, sheep), ‏شاة. (various references)

Basque		ardi (ewe sheep). (various references)

Bulgarian		овца (mutton, sheep). (various references)

Chinese		母羊 . (various references)

Czech		ovce (sheep). (various references)

Danish		(moder)faar. (various references)

Dutch		ooi. (various references)

Finnish		emälammas, uuhi. (various references)

French		brebis, agnelle (ewe lamb). (various references)

German		mutterschaf. (various references)

Greek		προβατίνα (breeding ewe). (various references)

Hebrew		ש�" (lamb), כבש�" (ewe lamb, sheep), רחל (sheep). (various references)

Hungarian		anyajuh. (various references)

Indonesian		ngewe (lihat: ewe), mengewe (see: ewe). (various references)

Italian		pecora (sheep, wild sheep). (various references)

Korean		�"양. (various references)

Manx		oasht (female sheep, yearling, yearling sheep). (various references)

Occitan		oelha, feda. (various references)

Pig Latin		eweay

Portuguese		extração (abstraction, avulsion, draw by lot, drawing, drawing by lot, drawing ink, extraction, winning), ovelha (ewer, sheep). (various references)

Romanian		oaie (ovine, sheep, sheepskin). (various references)

Romany		bakrì. (various references)

Russian		овца (sheep). (various references)

Scottish		crog (a jar, an aged ewe, an earthen vessel, crock). (various references)

Sepedi		nku e tshadi. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ovca (ovine, sheep). (various references)

Shona		nhunzvi yehwai. (various references)

Spanish		oveja (sheep, wild sheep). (various references)

Swedish		tacka (clump weight, ingot, non-ferrous ingot, pig, thank). (various references)

Thai		แกะตัวเมียที่โตเต็มที่แล้ว. (various references)

Turkish		marya, koyun (arms, bosom, sheep). (various references)

Ukranian		вівця (sheep). (various references)

Welsh		oenig (ewe-lamb), hesbin (yearling ewe). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Ewe

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	1. u. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	agna. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Ewe

Language	Date	Source	Genesis Chapter 21, Verse 28
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai esthsen abraam epta amnadaV probatwn monaV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et statuit Abraham septem agnas gregis seorsum
Old English	990	West Saxon	Abraham ða gesette seofan lamb on sundron
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And Abrahame ordeynede seuene she lambis of the flok asyde.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And Abraham sett vij. lambes by them selues.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Ewe

Language	Genesis Chapter 21, Verse 28
Cebuano	Ug gipinig ni Abraham ang pito ka book nga mga nating carnero nga baye.
Chinese	亞伯拉罕把七隻母羊 �" 另 �"� 在一處。
Croatian	Potom Abraham razluèi napose sedam janjaca od stada.
Danish	Men Abraham satte syv Lam til Side,
Dutch	Doch Abraham stelde zeven ooilammeren der kudde bijzonder.
Finnish	Ja Aabraham asetti laumasta seitsemän uuhikaritsaa erilleen muista.
French	Abraham mit � part sept jeunes brebis.
German	Und Abraham stellt sieben Lämmer besonders.
Haitian Creole	Abraram pran sèt mouton nan bann mouton l' yo, li mete yo sou kote.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Abraham memisahkan tujuh anak domba dari kawanan dombanya,
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka oleh Ibrahim diasingkan tujuh ekor anak domba betina dari pada kawannya.
Italian	Poi Abramo mise in disparte sette agnelle del gregge.
Maori	Na ka wehea e Aperahama ki tahaki e whitu nga reme uha o nga hipi.
Norwegian	Og Abraham stilte syv får av småfeet for sig selv.
Portuguese	Pôs Abraão, porém, � parte sete cordeiras do rebanho.
Rumanian	Avraam a pus de o parte wapte mieluwele din turmq.
Swedish	Men Abraham ställde sju lamm av hjorden avsides.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ewe

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Ewe": ewer, ewers, ewes. (additional references)
	Words containing "Ewe": agueweed, agueweeds, bedewed, bejewel, bejeweled, bejeweling, bejewelled, bejewelling, bejewels, beshrewed, bestrewed, bewearied, bewearies, beweary, bewearying, beweep, beweeping, beweeps, bewept, blueweed, blueweeds, brewed, brewer, breweries, brewers, brewery, bridewell, bridewells, bugleweed, bugleweeds, chewed, chewer, chewers, clewed, corkscrewed, crewed, crewel, crewels, crewelwork, crewelworks, daneweed, daneweeds, dewed, dyeweed, dyeweeds, eschewed, eyewear, farewell, farewelled, farewelling, farewells. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ewe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bwe, cewe, cwe, Dewjee, eae, Eaei, eawe, ebe, ece, ecw, ede, Edwa, eeb, eee, eeee, eeh, eeq, eewe, efe, Ege, egw, ehe, eie, Eiwa, Eiwse, ejee, Elway, eme, ene, eoe, eowe, epe, eqe, erw, Eswa, Eswi, ete, eua, eue, Euwe, evw, ewa, eway, ewd, ewea, eweb, ewec, ewed, ewee, eweek, ewel, ewet, ewev, ewg, ewi, ewie, ewig, Ewin, ewit, ewl, ewm, ewn, ewo, ewoe, ewon, Ewp, ewq, ews, ewu, eww, ewx, ewy, ewye, Eze, Ezee, gewe, Iew, i-wb, Iwe, iwi, jeew, jewe, kew-ee, lewe, Rewe, tewe, uee, uw, uwe, wece, weeh, weem, weeq, weew, weme, weqe, wewe, wexe, weye, weze, yewe, zeew. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ewe"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Ewe" (pronounced yuw")
2	y uw"	askew, cue, debut, few, fondue, Hew, hue, imbue, mew, miscue, pew, phew, Pugh, queue, review, revue, skew, spew, view, yew, you.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Ewe

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: wee.
	Words within the letters "e-e-w"
	-1 letter: we.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-w"
	+1 letter: awee, ewer, ewes, twee, weed, week, weel, ween, weep, weer, wees, weet, were, whee.
	+2 letters: bedew, dewed, dweeb, etwee, ewers, fewer, hewed, hewer, jewed, jewel, mewed, newel, newer, newie, ngwee, pewee, renew, resew, rewed, rewet, sewed, sewer, swede, sweep, sweer, sweet, tewed, tweed, tween, tweet, weave, weber, wedel, wedge, weeds, weedy, weeks, weens, weeny, weeps, weepy, weest, weets, wheel, wheen, wheep, where.
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