PEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pew mean? 

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

1. long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

church bench; pew

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

bench (a long seat for more than one person)

 Context examples 

She was passing the front pew at the time, and it fell over into the pew.

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

The waiter, who I supposed had lived in his churchwarden's pew for forty years, could not pursue such an insignificant subject.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The day was unmarked therefore by anything to interest her imagination beyond the sight of a very elegant monument to the memory of Mrs. Tilney, which immediately fronted the family pew.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Before that period, as I understand, the pews were only wainscot; and there is some reason to think that the linings and cushions of the pulpit and family seat were only purple cloth; but this is not quite certain.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Elton was first seen at church: but though devotion might be interrupted, curiosity could not be satisfied by a bride in a pew, and it must be left for the visits in form which were then to be paid, to settle whether she were very pretty indeed, or only rather pretty, or not pretty at all.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Pew!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was a moment’s delay, but the gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not appear to be the worse for the fall.

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

Miss Murdstone was between Dora and me in the pew; but I heard her sing, and the congregation vanished.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Pew was dead, stone dead.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

His extreme attention to my mother—wanting her to sit in the vicarage pew, that she might hear the better, for my mother is a little deaf, you know—it is not much, but she does not hear quite quick.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)