mead

See also: Mead and méad

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mēd, IPA^(key): /miːd/

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• Rhymes: -iːd
• Homophone: meed

Etymology 1

From Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; honey wine”).

Noun

mead (usually uncountable, plural meads)

1. An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
2. (US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.

Alternative forms

• meath, meathe, meeth (all obsolete)

Derived terms

• mead-bench
• meaded
• meadery

Translations

alcoholic drink

• Armenian: մեղրագինի (hy) (mełragini)
• Bashkir: бал (bal)
• Basque: ezti-ur
• Bulgarian: медови́на (bg) f (medovína)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蜂蜜酒 (zh) (fēngmìjiǔ)

• Classical Nahuatl: āyōneuctli
• Crimean Tatar: bal
• Czech: medovina (cs) f
• Danish: mjød (da) c
• Dutch: mede (nl) f
• Esperanto: medo (eo)
• Estonian: mõdu
• Faroese: mjøður m
• Finnish: hunajaviini, sima (fi)
• French: hydromel (fr) m, chouchen (fr) m
• Georgian: თაფლუჭი (tapluč̣i)
• German: Met (de) m
• Greek: υδρόμελι (el) n (ydrómeli)
• Hebrew: צוף‎ (he) m (tsuf)
• Hungarian: mézsör (hu)
• Icelandic: mjöður (is) m
• Ido: mielaquo (io)
• Irish: meá f
• Italian: idromele m
• Japanese: はちみつ酒 (はちみつしゅ, hachimitsushu), ミード (mīdo)
• Latin: mulsa f
• Latvian: medus (lv) m
• Limburgish: mieëd (li)

• Macedonian: медо́вина f (medóvina)
• Malagasy: betsantely (mg)
• Manx: milljag f
• Maori: pia honi
• Nahuatl: aoctli
• Norman: baûtchet m (Jersey), vitoué m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mjød m

  Nynorsk: mjød m

• Old English: medu m
• Old Irish: mid n
• Persian: مل‎ (fa) (mol)
• Polish: miód pitny (pl) m
• Portuguese: hidromel (pt) m
• Romanian: hidromel (ro) m, mied (ro)
• Russian: мёд (пи́тный) m (mjód (pítnyj)), медову́ха (ru) f (medovúxa)
• Sanskrit: मधु (sa) n (madhu)
• Scottish Gaelic: meadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: медовина f

  Roman: medovina (sh) f

• Slovak: medovina f
• Spanish: aguamiel (es) f
• Swedish: mjöd (sv) n
• Tagalog: agwamyel
• Turkish: bal şarabı
• Volapük: mielavin, meed
• Welsh: medd (cy) m
• Yiddish: מעד‎ m (med)

Related terms

• bragget (“drink made from ale, honey & spices”)

See also

• ambrosia (noun)
• mead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Old English mǣd. Cognate with West Frisian miede, German Low German Meed, Mede.

Noun

mead (plural meads)

1. (poetic) A meadow.
   • a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Dorinda”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, volume I, Second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 693:

     Farewel ye crystal streams, that pass
     Thro’ fragrant meads of verdant grass:

   • c. 1817, John Keats, Hither, Hither, Love:

     Hither, hither, love —

     ‘Tis a shady mead —

     Hither, hither, love!

     Let us feed and feed!

   • 1848, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 28:

     Four voices of four hamlets round, / From far and near, on mead and moor, / Swell out and fail, as if a door / Were shut between me and the sound [...].

   • 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath:

     There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...].

Derived terms

• Thamesmead

Anagrams

• ADME, Dame, Edam, MEDA, dame, made

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Spanish

Verb

mead

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of mear.

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Etymology

From Old English mǣd.

Noun

mead

1. meadow

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)