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Definition of pew in English: pewnoun pjuːpju 1A long bench with a back, placed in rows in the main part of some churches to seat the congregation. Example sentencesExamples - She sat in the church pews waiting for the service to begin.
- There's something about the Christmas season that defies even the most secular of societies and brings out the people to fill up church pews in normally unheard of numbers.
- Just like every other church, they have pews, pulpits and rooms.
- There was only a handful of people in the congregation, sitting on pews toward the front of the nave.
- The nave's interior is warmed by wood pews and window seats and red-oak ceilings.
- Eritrean Orthodox Churches do not have pews or chairs; most churchgoers stand for the entire period unless they are elderly or sick.
- Some traditional churches have no pews and there is never an organ because of the Orthodox belief that only the human voice is permitted in the worship of God.
- From the pews the congregation looked on with mild affection, perhaps half hearing the weighty words about trust and steadfastness.
- I miss the days of putting on Christmas plays and pageants for the masses who would huddle in gymnasiums or church pews just to see frightened little kids put on a show.
- Canon Sue Whitehouse has been under fire over proposals by her and the church council to remove pews, raise part of the nave floor, install a nave altar and introduce a grand piano at St Andrew's Church in Aysgarth.
- She talked various relatives into donating land, helping with the construction of the church, and making pews, doors and roof struts.
- When they arrived at the church the pews were filled.
- The congregation replaced stationary pews with ‘Danish modern’ wooden chairs that could be positioned in any arrangement.
- And, they add, it would recognise that the Church is gravitating away from the ailing parishes and empty pews of Europe to focus on vibrant congregations to the south.
- There was nothing unusual about groups of elegantly clad gentleman scuffling unceremoniously in order to place themselves at the head of a procession or to bag the best pews for a church service.
- Hall, who speaks in soft, measured tones, spent most of his life sitting in wooden church pews, hearing about the goodness of God.
- It is a cold, gray church with hard wooden pews, a miserable place and after briefly walking through it Sonia wants to leave.
- He chose a pew near the altar and said the Lord's Prayer over and over again until he stopped shaking.
- I remember seeing Mrs. Zito praying in the back pews of our church on Sunday afternoons when I served as an acolyte at benediction.
- They spent six months restoring the pulpit, wall panelling, lecterns, pews, tables and wall plaques to their former glory.
Synonyms bench, long seat, settle, stall - 1.1 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 Example sentencesExamples - The director was to sit in an enclosed pew at the rear of the church.
- Due to the pews being boxed, and most of them privately owned, by 1860 there was not enough room for the non-pew-owners to come for worship.
- Soon after being seated, down the main aisle to his pew walked Mark Twain, 24 with his big head of bushy hair.
- 1.2British informal A seat.
‘Take a pew. What'll you have?’ Example sentencesExamples - If you want to observe each and every angle of the view offered without so much as moving your feet, take a pew at the revolving café and sip a coffee while enjoying the view bit by bit.
- Be my guest, relax and take a pew: we've a lot to talk about!
Origin Late Middle English (originally denoting a raised, enclosed place in a church, provided for particular worshippers): from Old French puye 'balcony', from Latin podia, plural of podium 'elevated place'. Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo Definition of pew in US English: pewnounpjupyo͞o 1A long bench with a back, placed in rows in the main part of some churches to seat the congregation. Example sentencesExamples - There was only a handful of people in the congregation, sitting on pews toward the front of the nave.
- There was nothing unusual about groups of elegantly clad gentleman scuffling unceremoniously in order to place themselves at the head of a procession or to bag the best pews for a church service.
- The nave's interior is warmed by wood pews and window seats and red-oak ceilings.
- There's something about the Christmas season that defies even the most secular of societies and brings out the people to fill up church pews in normally unheard of numbers.
- The congregation replaced stationary pews with ‘Danish modern’ wooden chairs that could be positioned in any arrangement.
- I remember seeing Mrs. Zito praying in the back pews of our church on Sunday afternoons when I served as an acolyte at benediction.
- They spent six months restoring the pulpit, wall panelling, lecterns, pews, tables and wall plaques to their former glory.
- When they arrived at the church the pews were filled.
- Some traditional churches have no pews and there is never an organ because of the Orthodox belief that only the human voice is permitted in the worship of God.
- It is a cold, gray church with hard wooden pews, a miserable place and after briefly walking through it Sonia wants to leave.
- And, they add, it would recognise that the Church is gravitating away from the ailing parishes and empty pews of Europe to focus on vibrant congregations to the south.
- He chose a pew near the altar and said the Lord's Prayer over and over again until he stopped shaking.
- Canon Sue Whitehouse has been under fire over proposals by her and the church council to remove pews, raise part of the nave floor, install a nave altar and introduce a grand piano at St Andrew's Church in Aysgarth.
- Hall, who speaks in soft, measured tones, spent most of his life sitting in wooden church pews, hearing about the goodness of God.
- Eritrean Orthodox Churches do not have pews or chairs; most churchgoers stand for the entire period unless they are elderly or sick.
- I miss the days of putting on Christmas plays and pageants for the masses who would huddle in gymnasiums or church pews just to see frightened little kids put on a show.
- Just like every other church, they have pews, pulpits and rooms.
- From the pews the congregation looked on with mild affection, perhaps half hearing the weighty words about trust and steadfastness.
- She sat in the church pews waiting for the service to begin.
- She talked various relatives into donating land, helping with the construction of the church, and making pews, doors and roof struts.
Synonyms bench, long seat, settle, stall - 1.1 An enclosure or compartment containing a number of seats, used in some churches to seat a particular worshiper or group of worshipers.
Example sentencesExamples - Soon after being seated, down the main aisle to his pew walked Mark Twain, 24 with his big head of bushy hair.
- The director was to sit in an enclosed pew at the rear of the church.
- Due to the pews being boxed, and most of them privately owned, by 1860 there was not enough room for the non-pew-owners to come for worship.
- 1.2the pews The congregation of a church.
Example sentencesExamples - The lord will transfer power from the pulpit to the pews, he will only reveal himself to hungry people.
Origin Late Middle English (originally denoting a raised, enclosed place in a church, provided for particular worshippers): from Old French puye ‘balcony’, from Latin podia, plural of podium ‘elevated place’. |