name
Meaning 1
A surname from Old English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
mead
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Sound
Pronunciation
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mēd
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/miːd/
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rhymes with -iːd
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homophone: meed
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CMU ARPABET: M IY1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A place name:
A rural community in Cochrane District, north-eastern Ontario, Canada.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A place name:
A locality in the Shire of Gannawarra, northern Victoria, Australia
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A place name:
In the United States:
A statutory town in Weld County, Colorado.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
A place name:
In the United States:
A township in Merrick County, Nebraska.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 6
A place name:
In the United States:
A village in Saunders County, Nebraska.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 7
A place name:
In the United States:
A township in Belmont County, Ohio.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 8
A place name:
In the United States:
A town in Bryan County, Oklahoma.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 9
A place name:
In the United States:
A township in Warren County, Pennsylvania.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 10
A place name:
In the United States:
A census-designated place in Spokane County, Washington, named after George Meade.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 11
A place name:
In the United States:
An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 12
A place name:
In the United States:
A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 13
An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Qualifier: alcoholic beverages
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noun
Meaning 14
A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.
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Usage: US, uncountable, usually
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noun
Meaning 15
A meadow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: poetic
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noun
Meaning 16
made of fermented honey and water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: brew, brewage
Narrower terms: metheglin
noun
Meaning 17
United States philosopher of pragmatism (1863-1931)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: George Herbert Mead
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Broader terms: philosopher
noun
Meaning 18
United States anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in Polynesian cultures (1901-1978)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Margaret Mead
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Broader terms: anthropologist
History
Etymology
Two main origins: * A topographic surname for someone who lived by a meadow, from Old English mǣd (“meadow”). * A metonymic occupational surname for a brewer or seller of mead, from Old English medu (“mead”).
From Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-West Germanic *medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *médhu (“honey; honey wine”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu) (whence English methyl), Lithuanian medùs, Old Church Slavonic медъ (medŭ, “honey”), Persian می (mey), Sanskrit मधु (mádhu), Welsh medd, Finnish mesi, Chinese 蜜 (mì).
From Middle English mede (“meadow”), from Old English mǣd. Cognate with West Frisian miede, Mede, German Low German Meed, Dutch made.
Across languages
Translations
82 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: heuningbier — alcoholic drink
- Arabic: بِتْع (bitʕ) — alcoholic drink
- Armenian: մեղրագինի (meġragini) — alcoholic drink
- Bashkir: бал (bal) — alcoholic drink
- Basque: ezti-ur — alcoholic drink
- Bulgarian: медови́на (medovína) — alcoholic drink
- Catalan: hidromel — alcoholic drink
- Catalan: aiguamel — alcoholic drink
- Chinese Mandarin: 蜂蜜酒 (fēngmìjiǔ) — alcoholic drink
- Crimean Tatar: bal — alcoholic drink
- Czech: medovina — alcoholic drink
- Danish: mjød — alcoholic drink
- Dutch: mede — alcoholic drink
- Esperanto: medo — alcoholic drink
- Estonian: mõdu — alcoholic drink
- Faroese: mjøður — alcoholic drink
- Finnish: hunajaviini — alcoholic drink
- Finnish: sima — alcoholic drink
- French: hydromel — alcoholic drink
- French: chouchen — alcoholic drink
- Galician: augamel — alcoholic drink
- Galician: melgacho — alcoholic drink
- Georgian: თაფლუჭი (tapluč̣i) — alcoholic drink
- German: Met — alcoholic drink
- German: Honigwein — alcoholic drink
- Greek: υδρόμελι (ydrómeli) — alcoholic drink
- Ancient Greek: ὑδρόμελι (hudrómeli) — alcoholic drink
- Hebrew: תֶּמֶד (témed) — alcoholic drink
- Hungarian: mézsör — alcoholic drink
- Icelandic: mjöður — alcoholic drink
- Ido: mielaquo — alcoholic drink
- Irish: meá — alcoholic drink
- Old Irish: mid — alcoholic drink
- Italian: idromele — alcoholic drink
- Japanese: はちみつ酒 (hachimitsushu) — alcoholic drink
- Japanese: ミード (mīdo) — alcoholic drink
- Korean: 꿀술 (kkulsul) — alcoholic drink
- Korean: 밀주 (milju) — alcoholic drink
- Latin: mulsa — alcoholic drink
- Latin: hydromel — alcoholic drink
- Latvian: medus — alcoholic drink
- Lithuanian: midus — alcoholic drink
- Macedonian: медо́вина (medóvina) — alcoholic drink
- Malagasy: betsantely — alcoholic drink
- Manx: milljag — alcoholic drink
- Māori: pia honi — alcoholic drink
- Middle English: mede — alcoholic drink
- Nahuatl: aoctli — alcoholic drink
- Classical Nahuatl: āyōneuctli — alcoholic drink
- Nandi: kipketin — alcoholic drink
- Norman: baûtchet — alcoholic drink
- Norman: vitoué — alcoholic drink
- Norwegian Bokmål: mjød — alcoholic drink
- Norwegian Nynorsk: mjød — alcoholic drink
- Old English: medu — alcoholic drink
- Old Prussian: alu — alcoholic drink
- Pannonian Rusyn: медовка (medovka) — alcoholic drink
- Persian: مل (mol) — alcoholic drink
- Polish: miód pitny — alcoholic drink
- Polish: miód — alcoholic drink
- Portuguese: hidromel — alcoholic drink
- Romanian: hidromel — alcoholic drink
- Romanian: mied — alcoholic drink
- Russian: мёд — alcoholic drink
- Russian: медову́ха (medovúxa) — alcoholic drink
- Sanskrit: मधु (madhu) — alcoholic drink
- Scottish Gaelic: meadh — alcoholic drink
- Serbo-Croatian: медовина — alcoholic drink
- Serbo-Croatian: medovina — alcoholic drink
- Slovak: medovina — alcoholic drink
- Slovene: medica — alcoholic drink
- Spanish: aguamiel — alcoholic drink
- Spanish: hidromiel — alcoholic drink
- Swedish: mjöd — alcoholic drink
- Tagalog: agwamyel — alcoholic drink
- Turkish: bal şarabı — alcoholic drink
- Udmurt: мусур (musur) — alcoholic drink
- Ukrainian: медовуха (medovuxa) — alcoholic drink
- Volapük: mielavin — alcoholic drink
- Volapük: meed — alcoholic drink
- Welsh: medd — alcoholic drink
- Yiddish: מעד (med) — alcoholic drink