MEWS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mews mean? 

• MEWS (noun)
  The noun MEWS has 1 sense:

1. street lined with buildings that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings

  Familiarity information: MEWS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEWS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Street lined with buildings that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

she lives in a Chelsea mews

Hypernyms ("mews" is a kind of...):

street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

They had driven him home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I’ll see to it, sir,” said I, and away I ran to the mews in Little Ryder Street, where my uncle stabled his horses.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The mews were active, the Piccadilly houses being mostly in occupation.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Holmes’s knowledge of the byways of London was extraordinary, and on this occasion he passed rapidly and with an assured step through a network of mews and stables, the very existence of which I had never known.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So say the Serpentine-mews, to a man.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Van Helsing and I tried to make inquiry at the back of the house; but the mews was deserted and no one had seen him depart.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the garden.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)