Definitions for mew

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Spelling: [myoo]

IPA: /myu/

Mew is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in mew (emw).

Definitions for mew

noun

1. the tiny, high-pitched sound a cat or kitten makes.
2. the characteristic sound a gull makes.
3. a small gull, Larus canus, of Eurasia and northwestern North America.
4. a cage for hawks, especially while molting.
5. a pen in which poultry is fattened.
6. a place of retirement or concealment.
7. mews, (usually used with a singular verb) Chiefly British. (formerly) an area of stables built around a small street. a street having small apartments converted from such stables.

verb (used with object)

1. Archaic. to shut up in or as in a mew; confine; conceal (often followed by up).

verb (used without object)

1. to make a mew or emit a similar sound.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to shed (feathers); to molt.

Origin of mew

1275-1325; Middle English meuen; imitative

Examples for mew

The Persian's mew was rather feebler that day, because she had a cold.

Miss Kitty Cat let go of her prize with a mew of disappointment.

"mew," said the cat the third time, and he jumped up on the prince's knee.

She did not seem in the least afraid until I was in the water, and then she began to mew.

"mew," again said the cat; but again the prince did not heed him.

Though doors are opened at her mew, You often have to push her through.

“mew,” said the cat, as he sprang softly into the room; but the prince did not heed him.

“mew,” again said the cat; but again the prince did not heed him.

"mew," said the cat, as he sprang softly into the room; but the prince did not heed him.

So he turned himself into a cat, and began to mew outside the door.