meute
See also: Meute
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mjuːt/
- Rhymes: -uːt
- Homophone: mute
Noun
meute (plural meutes)
- A cage for hawks; a mew.
- 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
- Many were held by lay abbots , who , by degrees , expelled the monks ; the cloisters became the camps of their retainers , the stables of their coursers , the kennels of their hounds , the meutes of their hawks.
- 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
References
- meute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- mute e
Dutch
Etymology
From French meute.
Pronunciation
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Noun
meute f (plural meuten or meutes)
- pack, rout, crowd
French
Etymology
From Middle French meute, from muete, from Latin *movita, feminine substantivization of Latin *movitus, 'vulgar' perfect passive participle for moveō (“move”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /møt/
Audio (file)
Noun
meute f (plural meutes)
- (hunting) pack (of hounds)
- mob (of people)
- C'est la meute des honnêtes gens qui fait la chasse à l'enfant (Jacques Prévert)
Derived terms
- mutin
Descendants
- → Dutch: meute
- → German: Meute
Further reading
- “meute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- émeut