mead
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Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; honey wine”).
NounEdit
mead (usually uncountable, plural meads)
- An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
- (US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.
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alcoholic drink
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- bragget (“drink made from ale, honey & spices”)
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Etymology 2Edit
From Old English mǣd. Cognate with West Frisian miede, German Low German Meed, Mede.
NounEdit
mead (plural meads)
- (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:
- 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, [...].