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noun
- 1. a long bench with a back, placed in rows in the main part of some churches to seat the congregation.
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PEW definition: 1. a long wooden seat with a high back, on which a row of people sit in a church 2. a long wooden…. Learn more.
1. : a compartment in the auditorium of a church providing seats for several persons. 2. : one of the benches with backs and sometimes doors fixed in rows in a church. Examples of pew in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web Among the church pews there was Rubin, looking satisfied with this first taste of the event.
PEW meaning: 1. a long wooden seat with a high back, on which a row of people sit in a church 2. a long wooden…. Learn more.
Definition of pew noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A pew is a long wooden bench with a high back. You'll find many rows of pews in most churches. Some courtrooms have pews, but mostly they're found in churches, as seating for the congregation and sometimes for the members of a choir.
pew in American English. (pjuː) noun. 1. (in a church) one of a number of fixed, benchlike seats with backs, accessible by aisles, for the use of the congregation. 2. an enclosed seat in a church, or an enclosure with seats, usually reserved for a family or other group of worshipers. 3.
UK /pjuː/ noun 1. a long bench with a back, placed in rows in the main part of some churches to seat the congregation 2. an enclosure or compartment containing a number of seats, used in some churches to seat a particular worshipper or group of worshippers See also box pew 3. (British English, informal) a seat ‘Take a pew.
pew noun 1. Meaning & use. 1.a. c1400–. In a church: a place where seating, often enclosed, is reserved for the use of a particular (often distinguished) worshipper or group of worshippers; (more generally) any enclosure or compartment in which worshippers may be seated. Also in extended use. c1400 (?a1387)
Pew definition: One of the long, fixed, backed benches that are arranged in rows for the seating of a congregation in church.
How to use . pew in a sentenceAccording to pew, 14 of the 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa have blasphemy laws.
