EWE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ewe mean? 

• EWE (noun)
  The noun EWE has 3 senses:

1. a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana

2. a Kwa language spoken by the Ewe in Ghana and Togo and Benin

3. female sheep

  Familiarity information: EWE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EWE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Ewe" is a kind of...):

African (a native or inhabitant of Africa)

Holonyms ("Ewe" is a member of...):

Benin; Dahomey; Republic of Benin (a country on western coast of Africa; formerly under French control)

Togo; Togolese Republic (a republic on the western coast of Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; formerly under French control)

Ghana; Gold Coast; Republic of Ghana (a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Kwa language spoken by the Ewe in Ghana and Togo and Benin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Ewe" is a kind of...):

Kwa (a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Female sheep

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("ewe" is a kind of...):

sheep (woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat)

Meronyms (parts of "ewe"):

bag; udder (mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats))

 Context examples 

I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

If the man who had but one little ewe lamb that was dear to him as a daughter, that ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and lay in his bosom, had by some mistake slaughtered it at the shambles, he would not have rued his bloody blunder more than I now rue mine.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)