Beer vs Mead - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between beer and mead

is that beer is an alcoholic drink fermented from starch material commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor while mead is an alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.

As a verb beer

is {{cx|rare|transitive|lang=en}} To give beer to (someone.

As a proper noun Mead is

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beer

English

(wikipedia beer)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bere, from (etyl) .

Noun

(uncountable) An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer . […]”}}

(uncountable) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.

(uncountable) A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.

(countable) A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.

(countable) A variety of the above beverages.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* beer and skittles * beer belly * beer-bust * beer can * beered-up * beer garden * beer goggles * beer gut * beer hall * beerily * beerish * beerless * beer mat * beer muscles * beer parlour * beery * bock beer * champagne taste on a beer budget * craft beer * cry in one's beer * ginger beer * keg beer * ice beer * near beer * root beer * small beer * spruce beer (beer)

Descendants

* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l)

Verb

(en verb)

To give beer to (someone)

* Sidney Daryl, His First Brief. A Comedietta'' in 1870 , Clement Scott, ''Drawing-room Plays and Parlour Pantomimes , Robson and Sons, pages 303–304:

No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.

* 2010 , Steve Brezenhoff, The Absolute Value of -1 , Carolrhoda Lab, page 121:

“Beer me!” said Goody. “Also your weed is shit. Where’s the good stuff, dude?”

* 2013 , Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World , Hatchette Books Ireland, page 124:

I heard Patty Marsh yelling, ‘Beer him, Eleanor!’

* 2013 , R. D. Power, Forbidden , page 39:

“Beer me!” To his astonishment she obeyed his command, appearing a minute later with a glass of beer and a wry smile.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) beere, equivalent to .

Noun

(en noun)

One who is or exists.

Derived terms

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Anagrams

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mead

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) mede, from (etyl) medu, from (etyl) ‘honey; honey wine’.

Alternative forms

* meath, meathe, meeth (all obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)

An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.

(US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.

Derived terms

* mead-bench * meadery

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian miede, Low German Meed, (Mede).

Noun

(en noun)

(poetic) A meadow.

* 1848 , , 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 [...].

* 1920 , :

There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...].

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