mead

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey with water, sometimes with added herbs, spices, or fruit

   The small brewery produces a dry mead flavored with local heather honey.

2. 2
   noun

   archaic or poetic: a meadow

   The cattle grazed across the flowered mead beside the river.

The drink name descends from Old English medu and Proto-Germanic meduz, from an Indo-European word for honey or honey wine. The poetic word for a meadow is a separate homonym from Old English maed.

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