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meath

/miːð/

meath is the obsolete form of mead.

Meaning of mead

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
  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

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Proper noun capitalized: Meath

Meath

  1. A county of Ireland.
    Synonyms:
    County Meath
  2. (historical) A former kingdom in Ireland; a petty kingdom in central eastern Ireland that existed from the 1st to the 12th century CE

Synonyms of meath

Origin of meath

Borrowed from Middle Irish Mide.

Words formed from meath

Words that rhyme with meath

Questions about meath

What does meath mean?
Meath means a county of Ireland.
What is meath the obsolete form of?
Meath is the obsolete form of mead.
What part of speech is meath?
Meath is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce meath?
Meath is pronounced /miːð/.

Words near meath in the dictionary

  1. meatfork
  2. meatforks
  3. meatful
  4. meatgrinder
  5. meatgrinders
  6. meath
  7. meathe
  8. meathead
  9. meatheaded
  10. meatheads
  11. meather

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meath (page history and authors); Meath (page history and authors); mead (page history and authors). 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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