Pew
noun
A long bench with a back, for seating people in a church.
The congregation sat on the pews during the church service.
Often appears as...
- church pew
- wooden pew
noun
Collection or area of church pews.
The church had room to accommodate over hundred families in its pews.
Often appears as...
- church pews
- empty pews
interjection
Expression of dislike or disgust.
Pew! This cheese smells awful.
Often appears as...
- pew
- what's that smell?
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A measure of how loud a sound is.
The pew of the explosion was off the charts.
Often appears as...
- pew of the sound
- pew measurement
Usage tips
Technical
Technical
noun
A long bench with a back, for seating people in a church.
The congregation sat on the pews during the church service.
Often appears as...
- church pew
- wooden pew
noun
Collection or area of church pews.
The church had room to accommodate over hundred families in its pews.
Often appears as...
- church pews
- empty pews
interjection
Expression of dislike or disgust.
Pew! This cheese smells awful.
Often appears as...
- pew
- what's that smell?
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A measure of how loud a sound is.
The pew of the explosion was off the charts.
Often appears as...
- pew of the sound
- pew measurement
Usage tips
Technical
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Church Furniture
Pew specifically refers to seating in a religious context, mainly churches.
The old church's pews creaked during the quiet sermon.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Commonality
Most pews are made of wood, tying to traditional church designs.
The wooden pews were polished for the holiday service.
Pro Tip 3/3Fixed Seating
Unlike chairs, pews are often fixed to the floor, immovable.
Children played around the fixed pews after the service.
Pro Tip 1/3Church Furniture
Pew specifically refers to seating in a religious context, mainly churches.
The old church's pews creaked during the quiet sermon.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Commonality
Most pews are made of wood, tying to traditional church designs.
The wooden pews were polished for the holiday service.
Pro Tip 3/3Fixed Seating
Unlike chairs, pews are often fixed to the floor, immovable.
Children played around the fixed pews after the service.
Pro Tip 1/3Church Furniture
Pew specifically refers to seating in a religious context, mainly churches.
The old church's pews creaked during the quiet sermon.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Commonality
Most pews are made of wood, tying to traditional church designs.
The wooden pews were polished for the holiday service.
Pro Tip 3/3Fixed Seating
Unlike chairs, pews are often fixed to the floor, immovable.
Children played around the fixed pews after the service.
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Dave Eggers: 2008 TED...
They come there, many times their parents -- you can't see it, but there's a church pew that I bought in a Berkeley auction right there -- the parents will sometimes watch while their kids are being tutored. So that was the basis of it, was one-on-one attention. And we found ourselves full every day with kids.
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Hangout With the...
for joining us today for our Google+ Hangout my name is Marianne pots and I'm the editorial director of national geographic adventure and joining me today are five incredible adventurers they are some of our National Geographic 2015 adventures of the year so I want to start on the end Lewis pew and the
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How health workers are...
hours of drop-off so you can go right there and hopefully find one that's close to you and then this is arguably a more personal question so apologies in advance but we've seen a really shocking rise in anti-asian discrimination through this and I just wonder what message you have for pew
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Shark Warnings PIPE...
malfunction or some conservation organizations like the pew environment group the problem with sharks is endemic of a larger problem we now have the technology and the wherewithal to find and catch fish virtually anywhere in the world's marine environment so the sheer
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Nalini Nadkarni: For the...
all of the trees on the sacred ground of the churchyard to remind people that they are protecting not only the nave and the Holy Scriptures and the pews and the pulpit but also the fact that the trees and the biota in their own churchyards are deserving of mindfulness
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Lee Mokobe: A powerful...
The first time I uttered a prayer was in a glass-stained cathedral. I was kneeling long after the congregation was on its feet, dip both hands into holy water, trace the trinity across my chest, my tiny body drooping like a question mark all over the wooden pew.
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The gospel of doubt PIPE...
on the last night of our lives. Packed into a room just like this, but with creaky wooden pews draped in worn-down red fabric, with an organ to my left and a choir at my back and a baptism pool built into the wall behind them.
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Explorers Festival,...
shine a spotlight on the plight of the world's refugees and migrants raising awareness of the often heartbreaking challenges that they face through the work of pew litter Prize winning journalist and National
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The controversial...
evidence of popular opinions migration from pulpit and pew to cafe, salon, and press. It even has recipes. It's also irrepressibly human, as you can tell from Diderot's entry about a plant named aguaxima.
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Environmental Churches PIPE...
up as a model of how to build green from the ground up the floors are made of recycled concrete fly ash from power plants is part of the mix the oak pews and other would work come from a local
Video examples
Dave Eggers: 2008 TED...
They come there, many times their parents -- you can't see it, but there's a church pew that I bought in a Berkeley auction right there -- the parents will sometimes watch while their kids are being tutored. So that was the basis of it, was one-on-one attention. And we found ourselves full every day with kids.
Video examples
Hangout With the...
for joining us today for our Google+ Hangout my name is Marianne pots and I'm the editorial director of national geographic adventure and joining me today are five incredible adventurers they are some of our National Geographic 2015 adventures of the year so I want to start on the end Lewis pew and the
Video examples
How health workers are...
hours of drop-off so you can go right there and hopefully find one that's close to you and then this is arguably a more personal question so apologies in advance but we've seen a really shocking rise in anti-asian discrimination through this and I just wonder what message you have for pew
Video examples
Shark Warnings PIPE...
malfunction or some conservation organizations like the pew environment group the problem with sharks is endemic of a larger problem we now have the technology and the wherewithal to find and catch fish virtually anywhere in the world's marine environment so the sheer
Video examples
Nalini Nadkarni: For the...
all of the trees on the sacred ground of the churchyard to remind people that they are protecting not only the nave and the Holy Scriptures and the pews and the pulpit but also the fact that the trees and the biota in their own churchyards are deserving of mindfulness
Video examples
Lee Mokobe: A powerful...
The first time I uttered a prayer was in a glass-stained cathedral. I was kneeling long after the congregation was on its feet, dip both hands into holy water, trace the trinity across my chest, my tiny body drooping like a question mark all over the wooden pew.
Video examples
The gospel of doubt PIPE...
on the last night of our lives. Packed into a room just like this, but with creaky wooden pews draped in worn-down red fabric, with an organ to my left and a choir at my back and a baptism pool built into the wall behind them.
Video examples
Explorers Festival,...
shine a spotlight on the plight of the world's refugees and migrants raising awareness of the often heartbreaking challenges that they face through the work of pew litter Prize winning journalist and National
Video examples
The controversial...
evidence of popular opinions migration from pulpit and pew to cafe, salon, and press. It even has recipes. It's also irrepressibly human, as you can tell from Diderot's entry about a plant named aguaxima.
Video examples
Environmental Churches PIPE...
up as a model of how to build green from the ground up the floors are made of recycled concrete fly ash from power plants is part of the mix the oak pews and other would work come from a local
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Jeff Fisher
American Coach
I had this moment in church, which I think really turned me off. I was 7 or 8 years old and I was sitting at church, and we happened to be playing with the sunlight that was coming down from the stained glass window, and the monsignor came down to the pew and grabbed us by our neck collars and said, 'I'll deal with you.
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Pierre Loti
French Writer
I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.
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Polly Toynbee
English Journalist
But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
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Jim Elliot
American Clergyman
How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.
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Del Shores
American Director
So many kids are still sitting in pews being told they are not worthy of God's love. 'Sissies' will show them they are not alone, and I hope that healing will follow.
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Bill Hybels
American Clergyman
Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
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Philip Yancey
American Author
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!
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Beth Moore
American Author
I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.
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Miranda Lambert
American Musician
My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.
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Jeff Fisher
American Coach
I had this moment in church, which I think really turned me off. I was 7 or 8 years old and I was sitting at church, and we happened to be playing with the sunlight that was coming down from the stained glass window, and the monsignor came down to the pew and grabbed us by our neck collars and said, 'I'll deal with you.
Quote examples
Pierre Loti
French Writer
I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.
Quote examples
Polly Toynbee
English Journalist
But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
Quote examples
Jim Elliot
American Clergyman
How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.
Quote examples
Del Shores
American Director
So many kids are still sitting in pews being told they are not worthy of God's love. 'Sissies' will show them they are not alone, and I hope that healing will follow.
Quote examples
Bill Hybels
American Clergyman
Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
Quote examples
Philip Yancey
American Author
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!
Quote examples
Beth Moore
American Author
I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.
Quote examples
Billy Graham
American Clergyman
If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.
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Miranda Lambert
American Musician
My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.
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