- a long wooden seat in a church
- sitting in the front pew
- The first two rows of pews were occupied by the families of the bride and groom.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPew is used after these nouns:- church
Word Originlate 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’.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See pew in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarytake a pew!
- (British English, informal, humorous) used to tell somebody to sit down
- Come in and take a pew. Can I get you a cup of tea?
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