mead
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Etymology 1 [edit]
Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu ‘honey; honey wine’.
Alternative forms [edit]
Noun [edit]
mead (usually uncountable; plural meads)
Translations [edit]
alcoholic drink
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Etymology 2 [edit]
From Old English mǣd. Cognate with West Frisian miede, Low German Meed, Mede.
Noun [edit]
mead (plural meads)
- (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 [...].
- 1848, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 28:
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Spanish [edit]
Verb [edit]
mead (infinitive mear)
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- English countable nouns
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- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
