mead

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /miːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd
• Homophone: meed

Etymology 1

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

Translations

alcoholic drink

Basque: ezti-ur (eu) Chinese: Mandarin: 蜂蜜酒 (zh) (fēngmìjiǔ) Crimean Tatar: bal Czech: medovina (cs) f. Danish: mjød (da) c. Dutch: mede (nl) m. Esperanto: medo (eo) Estonian: mõdu (et) Faroese: mjøður (fo) m. Finnish: sima (fi) French: hydromel (fr) m. German: Met (de) m. Greek: υδρόμελι (el) (ydrómeli) n. Hebrew: צוף (he) (tsuf) m. Hungarian: mézsör (hu) Icelandic: mjöður (is) m. Irish: meá (ga) f. Italian: idromele (it) m.

Japanese: はちみつ酒 (ja) (はちみつしゅ, hachimitsushu), ミード (ja) (mīdo) Manx: milljag (gv) f. Norwegian: Bokmål: mjød (no) m. Nynorsk: mjød (nn) m. Old English: medu (ang) m. Old Irish: mid n. Polish: miód pitny (pl) m. Portuguese: hidromel (pt) m. Russian: мёд (ru) (mjod) m. (питный pítnyj), медовуха (ru) (medovúxa) f. Scottish Gaelic: meadh (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: медовина (sh) f. Roman: medovina (sh) f. Slovak: medovina (sk) f. Spanish: aguamiel (es) f. Swedish: mjöd (sv) n. Volapük: meed (vo)

Derived terms

• mead-bench

See also

• ambrosia noun
• Mead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Old English mǣd. Cognate with West Frisian miede, 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 [...].

Anagrams

• ADME, dame, Edam, made

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Spanish

Verb

mead (infinitive mear)

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