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meeds

meeds is the plural of meed.

Meaning of meed

Noun

meed (plural meeds)

  1. (archaic, literary) A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award.
    • For well ſhe wiſt,as true it was indeed / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deſerued as his duefull meed, / Her loue,her ſeruice,and her vtmoſt wealth.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 6
  2. A gift; bribe.
  3. (dated) Merit; worth.
    • […]my meed hath got me fame:[…]c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

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What is meeds the plural of?
Meeds is the plural of meed.

Words near meeds in the dictionary

  1. Meeders
  2. meedful
  3. meeding
  4. meedja
  5. meedless
  6. meeds
  7. meedy
  8. meef
  9. Meegan
  10. Meegans
  11. Meehan

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