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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Mead, Margaret Meadnoun

    United States anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in Polynesian cultures (1901-1978)

  2. Mead, George Herbert Meadnoun

    United States philosopher of pragmatism (1863-1931)

  3. meadnoun

    made of fermented honey and water

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Meadnoun

    A kind of drink made of water and honey.

    Etymology: mædo , Saxon; meethe, Dutch; meth, German; hydromeli, Lat.

    Though not so solutive a drink as mead, yet it will be more grateful to the stomach. Francis Bacon.

    He sheers his over-burden’d sheep;
    Or mead for cooling drink prepares,
    Of virgin honey in the jars. Dryden.

  2. Mead, Meadownoun

    Ground somewhat watery, not plowed, but covered with grass and flowers.

    Etymology: mæde , Sax.

    Where al thing in common do rest,
    Corne feeld with the pasture and mead,
    Yet what doth it stand you in stead? Thomas Tusser, Husb.

    A band select from forage drives
    A herd of beeves, fair oxen, and fair kine,
    From a fat meadow ground. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. x.

    Paints her, ’tis true, with the same hand which spreads,
    Like glorious colours, through the flow’ry meads,
    When lavish nature with her best attire
    Cloaths the gay spring, the season of desire. Edmund Waller.

    Yet ere to-morrow’s sun shall shew his head,
    The dewy paths of meadows we will tread,
    For crowns and chaplets to adorn thy bed. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. Mead

    Mead () is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey mixed with water, and sometimes with added ingredients such as fruits, spices, grains, or hops. The alcoholic content ranges from about 3.5% ABV to more than 20%. The defining characteristic of mead is that the majority of the beverage's fermentable sugar is derived from honey. It may be still, carbonated, or naturally sparkling; dry, semi-sweet, or sweet.The term honey wine is sometimes used as a synonym for mead, although wine is typically defined to be the product of fermented grapes or certain other fruits, and some cultures have honey wines that are distinct from mead. The honey wine of Hungary, for example, is the fermentation of honey-sweetened pomace of grapes or other fruits.Mead was produced in ancient times throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia, and has played an important role in the mythology of some peoples. In Norse mythology, for example, the Mead of Poetry, crafted from the blood of Kvasir (a wise being born from the mingled spittle of the Aesir and Vanir deities) would turn anyone who drank it into a poet or scholar.

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  1. mead

    Mead is an alcoholic beverage created by fermenting honey with water, and sometimes with the addition of fruits, spices, grains or hops. It dates back thousands of years and is considered one of the oldest known alcoholic beverages. The alcohol content of mead can range from mild to strong, and its flavor can vary from sweet to dry.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Meadnoun

    a fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel

  2. Meadnoun

    a drink composed of sirup of sarsaparilla or other flavoring extract, and water. It is sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas

  3. Meadnoun

    a meadow

  4. Etymology: [OE. mede, AS. meodo; akin to D. mede, G. met, meth, OHG. metu, mitu, Icel. mjr, Dan. mid, Sw. mjd, Russ. med', Lith. midus, W. medd, Gr. me`qy wine, Skr. madhu honey, a sweet drink, as adj., sweet. 270. Cf. Metheglin.]

Wikidata

  1. Mead

    Mead, also called honey wine, is an alcoholic beverage that is produced by fermenting a solution of honey and water. It may also be produced by brewing a solution of water and honey with grain mash, which is strained before or after fermentation. Depending on local traditions and specific recipes, it may be flavored with spices, fruit, or hops. The alcoholic content of mead may range from about 8% ABV to 18%. It may be still, carbonated or naturally sparkling, and it may be dry, semi-sweet or sweet. Mead is known from many sources of ancient history throughout Europe, Africa and Asia, although archaeological evidence of it is ambiguous. Its origins are lost in history. "It can be regarded as the ancestor of all fermented drinks," Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat has speculated, "antedating the cultivation of the soil." Claude Lévi-Strauss makes a case for the invention of mead as a marker of the passage "from nature to culture." Mead has played an important role in the beliefs and mythology of some peoples. One such example is the Mead of Poetry, a mead of Norse mythology crafted from the blood of the wise being Kvasir which turns the drinker into a poet or scholar.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Mead

    mēd, n. honey and water fermented and flavoured. [A.S. medu; Ger. meth, W. medd.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Mead

    a brisk liquor made by fermenting honey, and used in civilised and barbarous Europe from very early times.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MEAD

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mead is ranked #1578 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mead surname appeared 22,727 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 8 would have the surname Mead.

    91.3% or 20,763 total occurrences were White.
    2.6% or 598 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.5% or 586 total occurrences were Black.
    1.7% or 395 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.9% or 225 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.7% or 159 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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  1. made

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mead in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mead in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of mead in a Sentence

  1. Brenda Burman:

    What we expect that means is that Lake Powell and Lake Mead will balance, that helps with what type of shortage we might have next year, that helps as far as where we think the reservoirs might be in two to three years, so it’s very good news.

  2. Michael Bennet:

    If we end up drying out Lake Powell and Lake Mead and get to the situation where Lake Powell's unrecoverable, I can't imagine what the cost of Lake Powell will be, i'm glad we have a down payment that will buy us some time.

  3. Lund University researcher Tobias Olofsson:

    Mead is an alcoholic drink made with just honey and water and it was regarded as the drink of the gods and you could become immortal or sustain a better health if you drank it. It was drunk by the Vikings for example and other cultures such as the Mayas, the Egyptians and it was a drink that was regarded as a very beneficial drink.

  4. Bryan Kroten:

    It's two and a half hours of pure experience from the time the helicopter lifts off to the time it returns, as you depart, you'll head towards Lake Las Vegas and Lake Mead. Then we do a giant 'S' turn over the Hoover Dam, so passengers on both sides of the helicopter have a perfect view.

  5. Andrew Schwartz:

    The entire Western US snowpack is looking quite good right now, will it be enough to fill up Lake Mead or some of these other places that have been decimated? Likely not.

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