Meaning of Mead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Old English.
2. An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
   uncountable, usually
3. A meadow.
   poetic
4. A place name:
5. A rural community in Cochrane District, north-eastern Ontario, Canada.
6. A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.
   US, uncountable, usually
7. A locality in the Shire of Gannawarra, northern Victoria, Australia
8. In the United States:
9. A statutory town in Weld County, Colorado.
10. A township in Merrick County, Nebraska.
11. A village in Saunders County, Nebraska.
12. A township in Belmont County, Ohio.
13. A town in Bryan County, Oklahoma.
14. A township in Warren County, Pennsylvania.
15. A census-designated place in Spokane County, Washington, named after George Meade.
16. A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.

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Examples

“"Just come in," said Mrs. Churchill, "and take one glass of my mead." / "No—not even such a golden promise tempts me. I am afraid that Lord Marchmont will be at home before me—and he is not yet accustomed to be kept waiting."”

“No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's arse.”

“Farewel ye crystal streams, that pass / Thro’ fragrant meads of verdant grass:”

“Hither, hither, love — / ‘Tis a shady mead — / Hither, hither, love! / Let us feed and feed!”

“But any man that walks the mead, / In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, / According as his humours lead, / A meaning suited to his mind.”

“Four voices of four hamlets round, / From far and near, on mead and moor, / Swell out and fail, as if a door / Were shut between me and the sound […]”

“'We must overhaul that mead,' he resumed; 'this mustn't continny!'”

“There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...].”

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