English

Noun

mews ‎(plural mews or mewses)

1. (Britain) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 106

     It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.

2. (falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.

Translations

References

• “mews” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

Etymology 2

Plural noun, see mew.

Noun

mews

1. plural of mew

Etymology 3

See mew.

Verb

mews

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of mew

Anagrams

• smew