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Meaning of kew | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
/kjuː/

Definitions

  1. Acronym of kinetic energy weapon.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  2. A suburban area and former village in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1977).
  3. The name of the Latin script letter Q/q.
  4. Kew Gardens.
    metonymically
  5. A locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  6. An eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Examples

“The following telegram with explain this: "Your suggestion approved stop the troops proceeding to ex those to wye and zed and the detachment at kew must be completed to ten days rations."”
“the pardonable confusion for which some blame the cudgel and more blame the soot but unthanks to which the pees with their caps awry are quite as often as not taken for kews with their tails in their or are quite as often as not taken for pews with their tails in their mouths”
“"As usual I got me pees an' kews mixed up."”
“Kew is best known as the location of the Royal Botanic Gardens, now a World Heritage Site, and the National Archives.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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