noun
mead
meed
noun
1
An alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey with water, sometimes flavoured with fruit or spices.
"The wedding feast was toasted with tankards of homemade mead."
"Modern mead makers often age their honey wine in oak barrels like a fine wine."
2
A meadow (now a mostly literary or old-fashioned use).
"The old poem describes cattle grazing on the wide green mead."
How to Use Mead
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishHoney wine — one of the oldest alcoholic drinks in the world, made by fermenting honey instead of grapes or grain.
Common mistake
Don't confuse with "meadow" (a field) — "mead" meaning field is a rare, old-fashioned usage, while "mead" the drink is the sense people use today.
Easily confused with
meadow →
meed
Common pairings
a mug of mead
brew mead
honey mead
Word Forms
meads plural, meads plural, Meads plural
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Etymology
From Old English medu, going back to a very old Indo-European word for honey or honey-wine — the same root that gives us "methyl" through Greek méthu.