# mead
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: mēd, IPA: /miːd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːd
* Homophone: meed

### Etymology 1

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).

#### Noun

mead (usually uncountable, plural meads)
* (alcoholic beverages) An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
** 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 47:"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."
** 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 131:No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's arse.
* (US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.

##### Alternative forms

* meath, meathe, meeth (all obsolete)

##### Derived terms

* black mead
* mead-bench
* mead cup
* meaded
* meadery
* mead hall
* mead moon
* red mead

##### Related terms

* amethyst
* methane
* metho-
* methyl

##### Translations
#### See also

* bragget (“drink made from ale, honey & spices”)
* ambrosia (noun)
* mead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

mead (plural meads)
* (poetic) A meadow.
** 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:Farewel ye crystal streams, that pass / Thro’ fragrant meads of verdant grass:
** c. 1817, John Keats, Hither, hither, love -:Hither, hither, love — / ‘Tis a shady mead — / Hither, hither, love! / Let us feed and feed!
** 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. Moral.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 160:But any man that walks the mead, / In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, / According as his humours lead, / A meaning suited to his mind.
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXVIII, page 45: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 […]
** 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:'We must overhaul that mead,' he resumed; 'this mustn't continny!'
** 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath:There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...].

##### Derived terms

* lot mead
* Temple Meads
* Thamesmead

### Anagrams

* ADEM, ADME, Adem, Dame, Edam, MEDA, dame, made

## Spanish
### Verb

mead
* second-person plural imperative of mear

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English meade, from Old English mǣd. Cognate with West English meäd.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛːd/

### Noun

mead
* meadow

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56