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mead

/miːd/

mead noun: an alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.

mead: an alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water
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Noun (1)

mead (usually uncountable, plural meads)

  1. (usually, alcoholic beverages) An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
    • "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
    • 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
  2. (US, usually) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.

Noun (2)

mead (plural meads)

  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
    • 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

Proper noun capitalized: Mead

Mead (countable and uncountable, plural Meads)

  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A rural community in Cochrane District, north-eastern Ontario, Canada.
  3. A locality in the Shire of Gannawarra, northern Victoria, Australia
  4. A statutory town in Weld County, Colorado.
  5. A township in Merrick County, Nebraska.
  6. A village in Saunders County, Nebraska.
  7. A township in Belmont County, Ohio.
  8. A town in Bryan County, Oklahoma.
  9. A township in Warren County, Pennsylvania.
  10. A census-designated place in Spokane County, Washington, named after George Meade.
  11. An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
  12. A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.

mead meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam

mead in Hindi

mead, wine
माधवी mādhvī

mead in Tamil

தேன், போதைதராப் பானம், புல்வெளி

mead in Telugu

మీడ్

mead in Malayalam

മീഡ്
More languagesFewer languages
mead in Kannada
ಹುಲ್ಲುಗಾವಲು
mead in Gujarati
મીડ
mead in Sanskrit
मधु madhu
mead in Tagalog
agwamyel
mead in Arabic
بِتْع bitʕ
mead in Persian
مل mol

Examples of mead in a sentence

  • '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...
  • 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:

All 10 example sentences with mead

Forms of mead

Noun
pluralmeads
alternative formmeath
alternative formmeathe
alternative formmeeth
Proper noun
pluralMeads
alternative formMeade
alternative formMeades

Plural of mead: meads

Origin of mead

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).

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

Two main origins: * A topographic surname for someone who lived by a meadow, from Old English mǣd (“meadow”). * A metonymic occupational surname for a brewer or seller of mead, from Old English medu (“mead”).

Words formed from mead

Phrases with mead

Words that rhyme with mead

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Questions about mead

What does mead mean?
Mead means an alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
What is mead in Hindi?
Mead in Hindi is माधवी (mādhvī). See Mead meaning in Hindi.
How do you use mead in a sentence?
'We must overhaul that mead,' he resumed; 'this mustn't continny!'
What part of speech is mead?
Mead can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mead?
Mead is pronounced /miːd/.
What is the plural of mead?
The plural of mead is meads.

Words near mead in the dictionary

  1. Meachums
  2. Meaco
  3. meacock
  4. meacocks
  5. meaconing
  6. mead
  7. mead bench
  8. mead benches
  9. mead hall
  10. mead halls
  11. mead horn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mead (page history and authors); Mead (page history and authors); माधवी (Hindi) (page history and authors); mead (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mead (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mead (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mead (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mead (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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