pew
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5.3
- noun
- /pjuː/
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- When they led me in behind the casket, the only pew vacant was that same pew.
Sit them on the Pew right next to you so you can check them.
- Sit them on the Pew right next to you so you can check them.
- It is called the Church of the Blood Stained Pews.
- And I, my brother and I would get an ear twist from our mother when we're we're fucking around in the pews and those hard bench pews.
- You know some of you in here have Dylan Roof syndrome and it's like put the Bible up, you know, hide behind the Pew.
- I mean, it's, you know, it's like go to Sunday school and from the church Pew, you're texting on the gay hook up act.
- I came as I am like you did get get to the church, get in there, sit in the little pews and shit.
Examples
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I know an old lady back home, broke her leg stepping into a church pew.
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I noticed you just now, in the church, sitting in the pews.
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Sit them on the Pew right next to you so you can check them.
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The holding services take the front pew and join on in.
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We'd go to the back pew, and the seat is still covered in red velvet.
Fiction book (1991) -
On the very front pew, a priest sits, head bent low in prayer.
Fiction book (1992) -
Perhaps a hundred people or more stood in the ancient pews, and each held a single lit candle.
Fiction book (1991) -
Friends of WSM and the performers sit in two pews against the backdrop.
Fiction book (1990) -
Bedicheks and Nowaks soon sat comfortably in the pews of the Baptist Church.
Academic text (1996) -
During the service, the congregation sat quietly on the pew as the pastor delivered the sermon.
Synonyms
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1.0
A place for one person to sit, for example in a theater
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1.0
A long hard seat for several people, often made of wood
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3.5
A long bench in a church where people sit during services
A long wooden seat with a back for people to sit in a church
An area in a room or building with places for people to sit
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Etymology
Pew for a church bench comes from an old word meaning 'raised place', like the familiar word podium. It first named a small raised area and then the bench by that area, so today a pew is the long seat in a church.