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Definition: Mews |
MewsNoun1. (British) street lined with building that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings; "she lives in a Chelsea mews". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mews" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Note: Mews \Mews\, noun. singular & plural [Prop. plural of mew. See Mewa cage.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Mews Stables, but properly a place for hawks on the moult. The muette was an edifice in a park where the officers of venery lodged, and which was fitted up with dog-kennels, stables, and hawkeries. They were called muettes from mue, the slough of anything; the antlers shed by stags were collected and kept in these enclosures. (Lacombe: Dictionnaire Portatif des Beaux-Arts.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda, board walk, embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd, close, yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Lamp in Assassin Mews (1962) Britannia Mews (1949) Mudder Mews (1977) | |
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 | The second meeting of the Bohemians was held in a stable on the mews. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | New York city views. Washington Mews and no. 1 5th Ave., close-up. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Mews" by T. Al Nakib Commentary: "A cute little mews in the heart of London." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Mews" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 51.00% of the time. "Mews" is used about 100 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 (proper) | 51% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Noun (plural) | 45% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 4% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 100 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mews" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mews | Last name | 170 | 42,843 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "mews": royal mews. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
royal mews | 32 | mews vaudeville | 3 |
mews | 22 | mews victoria | 3 |
jason mews | 14 | fox mews | 3 |
house mews | 9 | cat good litter mews | 2 |
chev mews olds | 6 | ashley mews | 2 |
mews tavern | 6 | box mews | 2 |
good mews | 5 | mews somerset | 2 |
carnegie mews | 5 | abc mews | 2 |
hangout mews | 5 | annandale mews | 2 |
london mews hilton | 5 | canterbury mews | 2 |
georgetown mews | 4 | design falconry mews | 2 |
mews newport | 4 | crofton mews | 2 |
apartment mews | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mews"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Stallë (byre, pen, stall, stockyard, stud). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Уличка С частни Конюшни. (various references) | |
Chinese | 喵喵叫 (mew, Mewed, Mewing). (various references) | |
Czech | Konírny, Drožkářský Dvùr. (various references) | |
Dutch | Koninklijke Stallen (Royal Mews), Koninklijk Staldepartement (Royal Mews). (various references) | |
French | Venelle, Ruelle, Écurie. (various references) | |
German | Stallung (stabling), miaut (caterwauls, miaows). (various references) | |
Greek | Σταύλοι Αρχοντόσπιτων. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sikátor (alley, alleyway, alley-way, close, gut, Lane), köz (alley, interstice, interval, land, lane, space between), istállósor. (various references) | |
Italian | Miagoli. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ewsmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | estrebarias, estábulos, cavalariças. (various references) | |
Romanian | Grajduri (stabling), Grajd (barn, cow-house, shed, stable, stabling, stall). (various references) | |
Russian | Конюшня, Конюшни, конюшни (stabling), извозчичий двор (livery stable). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mala ulica sa štalama, staje, štale. (various references) | |
Spanish | Calle De Casas Pequeñas, Caballeriza (stable, stud). (various references) | |
Swedish | stallänga. (various references) | |
Turkish | Ahırlar, Ahırdan Bozma Sıralı Evler. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Стайня. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "mews": smews, unmews. (additional references) | |
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"Mews" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emw, ews, ewsm, gews, mays, meas, mebs, mecs, mees, meew, meez, mefs, meis, Meiss, mems, mers, merss, mesp, Meswa, mewd, mewe, mewes, mewn, Mewse, mewt, mewy, miew, mwezi, zews. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ews": Flews, NEWS, trews. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: smew. | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-s-w" | |
-1 letter: ems, mew, sew. | |
-2 letters: em, es, me, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-s-w" | |
+1 letter: meows, mewls, smews, wames. | |
+2 letters: embows, mowers, unmews, whelms. | |
+3 letters: awesome, beswarm, beworms, deworms, enwombs, manwise, meadows, mellows, mewlers, mildews, misdrew, misgrew, misknew, newsman, newsmen, rewarms, semiraw, showmen, snowmen, somehow, someway, stewbum, swagmen, swamies, swamped, swamper, swarmed, swarmer, swimmer, twasome, twosome, wadmels, wagsome, wambles, wamuses, warmers, warmest, whimsey, wimbles, wimples, winsome, woesome, womeras, wormers. | |
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