mews
/mjuːz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A place where birds of prey are housed.
Example Sentences
- "What penned them there, with all the plain to choose? No foot-print leading to that horrid mews, None out of it."
- "It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people."
- "It was here in the kitchen, in the passage In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market place[…]."
- "It was further proposed that a space of ground near these establishments should be appropriated to a mews for the convenience of persons requiring post horses, and for the standing of horses and carriages at livery."
- "[Pavilion Road is] a cobbled mews lined with butchers, cheesemongers, florists and cafés offering a village-like counterpoint to the grandeur of the main thoroughfare."
Etymology
Usage
- British usage