mew

1. 1.

   cry like a cat

   “the cat meowed”

   Synonymsmeow

   Broaderutter
2. 2.

   utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls

   Broaderutter

Other forms of mew

plural

mews·

past tense

mewed·

present participle

mewing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mew

What does mew mean?

mew means "the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mew?

mew has 1 syllable: mew. In IPA it is /ˈmju/.

What is another word for mew?

Close synonyms include meow, miaou, miaow, miaul, mew gull. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mew a common word?

mew is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mew?

1 word rhymes with mew. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.