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meed | mead |

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

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meed

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) meede, mede, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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:
    • 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.
  • *
  • A gift; bribe.
  • (obsolete) Merit or desert; worth.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)
    • My meed hath got me fame.
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "meed")
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) meden, from (etyl) *.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reward; bribe.
  • To deserve; merit.

    • 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

    See also

    * ambrosia noun * ("mead" on Wikipedia)

    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, [...].

    Anagrams

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