1. a long bench with a back, placed in rows in the main part of some churches to seat the congregation.
▪ an enclosure or compartment containing a number of seats, used in some churches to seat a particular worshiper or group of worshipers.
▪ the congregation of a church:"the pews settled down"
Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting a raised, enclosed place in a church, provided for particular worshippers): from Old French puye ‘balcony’, from Latin podia, plural of podium ‘elevated place’.
