mead

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mead /miːd/ noun  1  [uncountable]DFD an alcoholic drink made from honey 蜂蜜酒 a glass of mead 一杯蜂蜜酒2  [countable] literary a meadow 草地 the flowery mead 遍地是花的青草地

Examples from the Corpus

mead• They sat often at their sewing, discussing mead and medicines and men.• Except that he ate venison and roast lamb, and drank milk laced with honey, or hot mead fragrant with herbs.• The sweet water was strained, and used to make mead.• The tribute of tears was the good man's mead.• Not another word was spoken, till he tossed back the mead in one gulp.• He would taste of the mead of the gods.• The mead was passed, and the mugs were refilled, and the fires burned a bit lower.Origin mead 1. Old English medu2. Old English mæd

mead nounChinese  

drink made Corpus from honey alcoholic an

Mead

I

Mead, Lake
the largest reservoir (=a lake where water is stored before it is supplied to people's houses) in the US, on the Colorado River behind the Hoover Dam

II

Mead, Margaret
(1901–78) a US anthropologist, who studied the ways in which parents on the islands of Samoa, Bali, and New Guinea taught their children. She also tried to discover whether males and females are born with the differences in behaviour that they show, or whether they learn to behave differently as they grow up in their particular societies. Her best-known book is Coming of Age in Samoa.

mead
mead /miːd/ noun1. [uncountable] an alcoholic drink made from honey:
    a glass of mead
2. [countable] literary a meadow:
    the flowery mead

meadBrE /miːd/ 🔊NAmE /miːd/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] a sweet alcoholic drink made from honey and water, drunk especially in the past （尤指旧时的）蜜糖酒，蜂蜜酒