mews

Meanings

Plural: mews, mewses

Noun

• street lined with buildings that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings
  • "she lives in a Chelsea mews"
• the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
• the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
• An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
• A place where birds of prey are housed.
• plural of mew

Verb

• cry like a cat
• utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
• third-person singular simple present indicative of mew

Synonyms

Larus canus, meow, mew, mew gull, miaou, miaow, miaul, sea mew