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mead en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-West Germanic *medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; honey wine”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu) (whence English methyl), Lithuanian medùs, Old Church Slavonic медъ (medŭ, “honey”), Persian می (mey), Sanskrit मधु (mádhu), Welsh medd, Finnish mesi, Chinese 蜜 (mì).

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:alcoholic beverages, uncountable, usually) An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
    • No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's arse. 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 131:
    • "Just come in," said Mrs. Churchill, "and take one glass of my mead." / "No—not even such a golden promise tempts me. I am afraid that Lord Marchmont will be at home before me—and he is not yet accustomed to be kept waiting." 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 47:
  2. (US, uncountable, usually) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.

Forms

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meads Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

Meader · meady · meadlike · meadwort · mead cup · meadery · mead hall · red mead · black mead · meaded · meadsweet · mead-bench · mead horn · mead moon

Relateds

ambrosia · metho- · amethyst · methyl · bragget · methane

Translations (82)

fi hunajaviini (alcoholic drink) · fr hydromel (alcoholic drink) · cmn 蜂蜜酒 (alcoholic drink) · nb mjød (alcoholic drink) · sa मधु (alcoholic drink) · pl miód (alcoholic drink) · vo meed (alcoholic drink) · de Met (alcoholic drink) · ro mied (alcoholic drink) · ru мёд (alcoholic drink) · ka თაფლუჭი (alcoholic drink) · da mjød (alcoholic drink) · he תֶּמֶד (alcoholic drink) · uk медовуха (alcoholic drink) · cs medovina (alcoholic drink) · hu mézsör (alcoholic drink) · nrf baûtchet (alcoholic drink) · pl miód pitny (alcoholic drink) · lt midus (alcoholic drink) · la hydromel (alcoholic drink) · rsk медовка (alcoholic drink) · ru медову́ха (alcoholic drink) · ro hidromel (alcoholic drink) · tr bal şarabı (alcoholic drink) · gl melgacho (alcoholic drink) · ca hidromel (alcoholic drink) · grc ὑδρόμελι (alcoholic drink) · nci āyōneuctli (alcoholic drink) · mk медо́вина (alcoholic drink) · af heuningbier (alcoholic drink) · fi sima (alcoholic drink) · de Honigwein (alcoholic drink) · yi מעד (alcoholic drink) · is mjöður (alcoholic drink) · sh medovina (alcoholic drink) · pt hidromel (alcoholic drink) · sh медовина (alcoholic drink) · eu ezti-ur (alcoholic drink) · et mõdu (alcoholic drink) · fa مل (alcoholic drink) · ba бал (alcoholic drink) · mi pia honi (alcoholic drink) · ga meá (alcoholic drink) · tl agwamyel (alcoholic drink) · eo medo (alcoholic drink) · gd meadh (alcoholic drink) · es aguamiel (alcoholic drink) · lv medus (alcoholic drink) · niq kipketin (alcoholic drink) · ang medu (alcoholic drink) · nn mjød (alcoholic drink) · vo mielavin (alcoholic drink) · ko 밀주 (alcoholic drink) · nrf vitoué (alcoholic drink) · fo mjøður (alcoholic drink) · nah aoctli (alcoholic drink) · it idromele (alcoholic drink) · ja ミード (alcoholic drink) · bg медови́на (alcoholic drink) · es hidromiel (alcoholic drink) · enm mede (alcoholic drink) · udm мусур (alcoholic drink) · ja はちみつ酒 (alcoholic drink) · ko 꿀술 (alcoholic drink) · sl medica (alcoholic drink) · sk medovina (alcoholic drink) · cy medd (alcoholic drink) · la mulsa (alcoholic drink) · sv mjöd (alcoholic drink) · fr chouchen (alcoholic drink) · el υδρόμελι (alcoholic drink) · nl mede (alcoholic drink) · ar بِتْع (alcoholic drink) · prg alu (alcoholic drink) · io mielaquo (alcoholic drink) · gl augamel (alcoholic drink) · hy մեղրագինի (alcoholic drink) · crh bal (alcoholic drink) · ca aiguamel (alcoholic drink) · sga mid (alcoholic drink) · mg betsantely (alcoholic drink) · gv milljag (alcoholic drink)

wikidata: Q184442

mead en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Middle English mede (“meadow”), from Old English mǣd. Cognate with West Frisian miede, Mede, German Low German Meed, Dutch made.

Meanings

  1. (poetic) A meadow.
    • And then in haste her bow'r she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead. 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro:
    • 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 […] 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXVIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 45:
    • 'We must overhaul that mead,' he resumed; 'this mustn't continny!' 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
    • But any man that walks the mead, In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humours lead, A meaning suited to his mind. 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. Moral.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 160:
    • Another Fairy, Argea, entertains (c. xxxiii.) a king, queen, knight and ladies, in a stately palace. At night they retire to magnificent chambers, and in the morning they find themselves lying in a mead, some under trees, others on the sides of a stream, with more of the beauties of the ladies displayed than they could have desired. 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 541:
    • Farewel ye crystal streams, that pass Thro’ fragrant meads of verdant grass: a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Dorinda”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 693:
    • There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...]. 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath:
    • Hither, hither, love — ‘Tis a shady mead — Hither, hither, love! Let us feed and feed! c. 1817, John Keats, Hither, hither, love -:

Forms

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Deriveds

Temple Meads · Thamesmead · lot mead