Mews

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mews \Mews\, n. sing. & pl. [Prop. pl. of mew. See {Mew} a
     cage.]
     An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a
     confined place. [Eng.]
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Mr. Turveydrop's great room . . . was built out into a
           mews at the back.                        --Dickens.
     [1913 Webster] Mexal

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mews
       n : street lined with building that were originally private
           stables but have been remodeled as dwellings; "she lives
           in a Chelsea mews"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "mews":
     Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway,
     arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, barn,
     belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byre, byway,
     camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee,
     circumferential, close, corduroy road, county road, court, cowbarn,
     cowbyre, cowhouse, cowshed, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street,
     dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, expressway, freeway, gravel road,
     highroad, highway, highways and byways, interstate highway, lane,
     local road, main drag, main road, motorway, parkway, pave,
     paved road, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road,
     right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale,
     row, royal road, secondary road, speedway, stable, stall,
     state highway, street, thoroughfare, through street, thruway,
     toll road, township road, turnpike, wynd