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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mewsnoun

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

    "she lives in a Chelsea mews"

Wikipedia

  1. MEWS

    An early warning score (EWS) is a guide used by medical services to quickly determine the degree of illness of a patient. It is based on the vital signs (respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, temperature, blood pressure, pulse/heart rate, AVPU response). Scores were developed in the late 1990s when studies showed that in-hospital deterioration and cardiac arrest were often preceded by a period of increasing abnormalities in the vital signs.

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  1. mews

    A mews is a row or street of houses or apartments that have been converted from stables or built to look like former stables. Originally, in London, the term referred to a row of stables, usually with carriage houses below and living quarters above, built around a paved yard or court, or along a lane. The word may also refer to the lane or alley itself.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mews

    an alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place

  2. Etymology: [Prop. pl. of mew. See Mew a cage.]

Wikidata

  1. Mews

    Mews is a primarily British term formerly describing a row of stables, usually with carriage houses below and living quarters above, built around a paved yard or court, or along a street, behind large city houses, such as those of London, during the 17th and 18th centuries. The word may also refer to the lane, alley or back street onto which such stables open. It is sometimes applied to rows or groups of garages or, more broadly, to a narrow passage or a confined place. Today most mews stables have been converted into dwellings, some greatly modernised and considered highly desirable residences. The term mews is plural in form but singular in construction. It arose from "mews" in the sense of a building where birds used for falconry are kept, which in turn comes from birds' cyclical loss of feathers known as 'mewing' or moulting. From 1377 onwards the king's falconry birds were kept in the King's Mews at Charing Cross. The name remained when it became the royal stables starting in 1537 during the reign of King Henry VIII. It was demolished in the early 19th century and Trafalgar Square was built on the site. The present Royal Mews was then built in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. The stables of St James's Palace, which occupied the site where Lancaster House was later built, were also referred to as the "Royal Mews" on occasion, including on John Rocque's 1740s map of London.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MEWS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mews is ranked #49999 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mews surname appeared 419 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Mews.

    91.8% or 385 total occurrences were White.
    5% or 21 total occurrences were Black.
    1.4% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.4% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mews in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mews in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of mews in a Sentence

  1. Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis:

    I regret that today Mews have rejected the proposal. I feel this is a lost opportunity to give a concrete answer to a legitimate concern of European citizens.

  2. Charles de LEUSSE:

    When a dog mews, it's because he eats him (Si le chien miaule, c'est qu'il le mange)

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