Meed vs Meadow - What's the difference?
meed | meadow |
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.
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A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.
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Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
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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 meadow is
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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.
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* (English Citations of "meed")Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) meden, from (etyl) *.Anagrams
* * * ----meadow
English
(wikipedia meadow)Noun
(en noun)The Dust of Conflict, passage=
The Fraught History of a Watery World, passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}