meow
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- noun
- /miːaʊ/
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- Just as I plucked out the last thread, I heard a meow, meow!
- a cat's meow
And then you wrote meow and then an emoji of a cat.
- And then you wrote meow and then an emoji of a cat.
- Common onomatopoeias in English include animal noises such as oink, meow, roar, and chirp.
- Jay, I could tell who's here by their meow.
- Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
- Tweet tweet meow meow please, Sir, more porridge.
- Again, this is meow that I'm just blending away.
- Meowing is a way of communicating to you the meow specifically.
- Let's put it all together, meow, Yummy little snack.
- So Mama meow, OK, because it's obviously a leopard print top.
- Waves getting shorter or longer because the source is moving toward or away from you and you can hear it change as it goes by that meow.
- You know, meow, the biggest hurdle to get over with this thing is that this this prosthetic on my face smells like raw chicken.
Examples
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I heard a loud meow coming from the neighbor's house during the night.
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The cat pounces on the table and meows for its food.
Fiction book (1997) -
Hecate lets out a loud meow and stretches against Bruce's pants leg.
Fiction book (1992) -
The orange tabby cat meows, and Luke glances toward it, standing onstage by the edge of the screen.
Fiction book (2001) -
The cat let out a soft meow when it wanted to be fed.
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When the kitten was happy, it would give a cheerful meow and purr.
Synonyms
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A soft high sound that a kitten makes
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A short high sound that a cat makes
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A short high sound made by a cat or young bird
A high, often soft sound that a cat makes to get attention
A light, friendly sound a cat makes to invite play
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Etymology
The word meow imitates the sound a cat makes. Many languages use a similar word like miau, so meow means the cat's 'sound'.