mew

mew is a 3-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
2. transitive verb. To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.
3. intransitive verb. To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.
4. noun. A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural.
5. noun. A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks.
6. transitive verb. To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.
7. intransitive verb. To cry as a cat.
8. noun. The common cry of a cat.
9. noun. the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
10. noun. the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)

    Synonyms: meow, miaou, miaow, miaul

11. verb. cry like a cat

    "the cat meowed"

    Synonyms: meow

12. verb. utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls

Synonyms

meow, miaou, miaow, miaul

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mew:

wem

Common word forms

mews, mewed, mewer, mewing

Words from these letters

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