Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable)The cry of a cat.

    Miau, Miauen, Maunzen

    мяу́каниеmjaúkanije, мя́уmjáu

    the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)

  2. (UK, slang, uncountable)The drug mephedrone.

Examples

109 sentences
  1. All the cats were meowing loudly.

  2. A cat was meowing under my window.

  3. Tom heard a cat meowing in the tree.

    deTom hörte eine Katze, die auf dem Baum miaute. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. The cats seemed to be meowing all night.

  5. A couple of cats were meowing outside my window.

Translations

8 languages
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Origin

Alteration of earlier mew, from Middle English mewen, mouwen (“to mew, meow”), of onomatop

Alteration of earlier mew, from Middle English mewen, mouwen (“to mew, meow”), of onomatopoeic origin.

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Forms

plural: meows

Synonyms

6 synonyms
dronemeow meow
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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