intj
Meaning 1
A cat's (especially a kitten's) cry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
mew
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈmjuː/
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[ˈmjʊu̯]
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -uː
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homophone: mu
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/mjuː/
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CMU ARPABET: M Y UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
intj
Meaning 2
A gull's or buzzard's cry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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intj
Meaning 3
An exclamation of disapproval; boo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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name
Meaning 4
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Darren James Mew
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noun
Meaning 5
A gull, seagull.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal, poetic
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noun
Meaning 6
A prison, or other place of confinement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 7
A hiding place; a secret store or den.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 8
A breeding-cage for birds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 9
A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: falconry, hobbies, hunting, lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 10
A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
Topics: falconry, hobbies, hunting, lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 11
The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 12
The crying sound of a gull or buzzard.
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noun
Meaning 13
An exclamation of disapproval; a boo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 14
To shut away, confine, lock up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Examples
- 1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Juvenal, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 1, p. 10, [...] Nay some have learn’d the trick To beg for absent persons; feign them sick, Close mew’d in their Sedans, for fear of air:
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verb
Meaning 15
To moult.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The hawk mewed his feathers.
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verb
Meaning 16
To cause to moult.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 17
To shed antlers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 18
To meow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially
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verb
Meaning 19
To make its cry.
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verb
Meaning 20
To flatten one's tongue against the roof of the mouth, with the aim of improving jaw and facial structure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, slang
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noun
Meaning 21
the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mew gull, sea mew, Larus canus
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Broader terms: gull, seagull, sea gull
noun
Meaning 22
the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: meow, miaou, miaow, miaul
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Broader terms: cry
verb
Meaning 23
cry like a cat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the cat meowed
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Synonyms: meow
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Broader terms: utter, emit, let out, let loose
verb
Meaning 24
utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: utter, emit, let out, let loose
History
Etymology
From Middle English mewen; onomatopoeic.
From Middle English mewe, mowe, meau, from Old English mǣw (“seagull”), from Proto-West Germanic *maiwī, from Proto-Germanic *mai(h)waz (“seagull”). See also West Frisian meau, miuw, Dutch meeuw, German Möwe (whence Polish mewa); akin to Latvian maût (“to roar”), Old Church Slavonic мꙑꙗти (myjati, “to mew”).
From Middle English mewe, mue, mwe, from Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison”), from muer (“to moult”).
Named after British orthodontists John Mew and his son Michael Mew.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: чайка буревестница (čajka burevestnica) — gull or seagull
- Danish: måge — gull or seagull
- Esperanto: mevo — gull or seagull
- Faroese: mási — gull or seagull
- Faroese: mávur — gull or seagull
- French: mouette — gull or seagull
- French: goéland — gull or seagull
- Georgian: თოლია (tolia) — gull or seagull
- German: Möwe — gull or seagull
- Japanese: 鴎 (kamome) — gull or seagull
- Korean: 갈매기 (galmaegi) — gull or seagull
- Latvian: kaija — gull or seagull
- Old English: mǣw — gull or seagull
- Polish: mewa — gull or seagull
- Portuguese: gaivota — gull or seagull
- Russian: ча́йка (čájka) — gull or seagull
- Scots: maw — gull or seagull
- Scottish Gaelic: faoileann — gull or seagull
- Slovak: čajka — gull or seagull
- Swedish: mås — gull or seagull
- Turkish: martı — gull or seagull
- Volapük: mev — gull or seagull