different between mews vs emews

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: myo?oz, IPA^(key): /mju?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z
• Homophone: muse

Etymology 1

From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross.

Noun

mews (plural mews or mewses)

1. (Britain) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXIII:

     What penned them there, with all the plain to choose? / No foot-print leading to that horrid mews, / None out of it.

   • 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.

   • 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:

     It was here in the kitchen, in the passage

     In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market place […] .

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

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “mews”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

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

• MWEs, smew, wems

English

Noun

emews

1. plural of emew

Anagrams

• Weems