Meed vs Mead - What's the difference?
meed | mead |
A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.i:
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A gift; bribe.
(obsolete) Merit or desert; worth.
* (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)
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.
* 1848 , , In Memoriam , 28:
* 1920 , :
As a noun meed
is a payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.As a verb meed
is to reward; bribe.As a proper noun mead is
.meed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) meede, mede, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- For well she wist, as true it was indeed, / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deserued as his duefull meed , / Her loue, her seruice, and her vtmost wealth.
- My meed hath got me fame.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "meed")Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) meden, from (etyl) *.Anagrams
* * * ----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, [...].