meute

See also: Meute

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mjuːt/

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• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophone: mute

Noun

meute (plural meutes)

1. A cage for hawks; a mew.
   • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity‎^[1]:

     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.

References

• “meute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• mute e

Dutch

Etymology

From French meute.

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Noun

meute f (plural meuten or meutes)

1. pack, rout, crowd

French

Etymology

Inherited 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/

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Noun

meute f (plural meutes)

1. (hunting) pack (of hounds)
2. 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