mead

See also: Mead and méad

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miːd/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • 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
Translations
  • bragget (“drink made from ale, honey & spices”)

See also

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mead (plural meads)

  1. (poetic) A meadow.
    • 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, [...].

Anagrams

Spanish

Verb

mead

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

Yola

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)
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