Mead vs Greenland - What's the difference?
mead | greenland |
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.
(poetic) A meadow.
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A large self-governing territory in North America that is politically a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
The ice-covered island on which it is located, the largest island in the world (not counting Australia).
(obsolete) Spitzbergen, another island in Europe formerly thought to have been part of Greenland.
(surname)
A city in Arkansas
A village in Barbados
A ghost town in California
An unincorporated community in Colorado
A town in New Hampshire
A community in Nova Scotia, Canada
An unincorporated community in West Virginia
As proper nouns the difference between mead and greenland
is that mead is {{surname} while Greenland is a large self-governing territory in North America that is politically a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.As a noun mead
is an alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.mead
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) mede, from (etyl) medu, from (etyl) ‘honey; honey wine’.Alternative forms
* meath, meathe, meeth (all obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* mead-bench * meaderySee also
* ambrosia noun * ("mead" on Wikipedia)Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian miede, Low German Meed, (Mede).Noun
(en noun)- 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 [...].
- There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...].