mew

¹

[ myoo ]

noun

1. the tiny, high-pitched sound a cat or kitten makes.
2. the characteristic sound a gull makes.

verb (used without object)

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

mew

²

[ myoo ]

noun

1. a small gull, Larus canus, of Eurasia and northwestern North America.

mew

³

[ myoo ]

noun

1. a cage for hawks, especially while molting.
2. a pen in which poultry is fattened.
3. a place of retirement or concealment.
4. mews, (usually used with a singular verb) Chiefly British.
   1. (formerly) an area of stables built around a small street.
   2. 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 ).

mew

⁴

[ myoo ]

verb (used with or without object)

1. to shed (feathers); molt.

mew

¹

/ mjuː /

noun

1. a room or cage for hawks, esp while moulting

verb

1. troften foll byup to confine (hawks or falcons) in a shelter, cage, etc, usually by tethering them to a perch
2. to confine, conceal

mew

²

/ mjuː /

verb

1. intr (esp of a cat) to make a characteristic high-pitched cry

noun

1. such a sound

mew

³

/ mjuː /

noun

1. any seagull, esp the common gull, Larus canus Also calledmew gullsea mew

mew

⁴

/ mjuː /

verb

1. intr (of hawks or falcons) to moult
2. obsolete.
   tr to shed (one's covering, clothes, etc)

Other Words From

• mewer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of mew¹

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English meuen; imitative

Origin of mew²

First recorded in before 900; Middle English; Old English mǣwe; cognate with German Müwe

Origin of mew³

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English mue, from Middle French, akin to muer “to molt”; mew ⁴

Origin of mew⁴

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English mewen, from Old French muer “to molt,” from Latin mūtāre “to change”

Word History and Origins

Origin of mew¹

C14: from Old French mue, from muer to moult, from Latin mūtāre to change

Origin of mew²

C14: imitative

Origin of mew³

Old English mǣw; compare Old Saxon mēu, Middle Dutch mēwe

Origin of mew⁴

C14: from Old French muer to moult, from Latin mūtāre to change

Example Sentences

Before Williams' individual medal, the other four had come in the synchronised events, with Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen starting the medal rush on day one of the Games in the synchronised 3m springboard.

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Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen won Team GB's first medal of the Paris Games with a bronze in the synchronised 3m springboard.

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Tom Daley and Noah Williams took silver in the men's synchro 10m platform, with bronzes for Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen in the women's synchro 3m springboard and Lois Toulson and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix in the women's synchro 10m platform.

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Before the start of these Games, Britain had waited 64 years for a female diving medal at the Games but Spendolini-Sirieix and Toulson made it two in five days after Scarlett Mew Jenson and Yasmin Harper's earlier bronze.

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Tom Daley and Noah Williams won silver in the equivalent men’s competition while Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen took bronze in the 3m synchronised springboard on day one.

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