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mead

mead

14 8.7
An alcoholic drink made from honey and water, sometimes with spices or fruit
  • noun
  • /miːd/
: hidromiel
  • All we need now is a plate of rollmops and half a pint of mead.

I also made Mead just as sort of an experiment.

Examples

  • This one is a trio of wine, beer, and mead.

  • In seconds, what appeared to be flagons of wine and mead were making the rounds.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • I also made Mead just as sort of an experiment.

  • Can I get anyone some more mead?

  • We have no food, no garments, no mead, nothing!

  • We won't be short of mead, will we?

  • The feast passed off well enough, Merrik supposed, sipping on the sweet mead that Sarla made so very well.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Merrik sat silent and still, hunched over on the long bench, a cup of mead between his cupped hands.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Thor raised it to his lips and drank the surprisingly cold and salty Mead in the longest gulp he could muster.

  • At the festival, visitors can sample over a dozen different meads made with various fruits and spices.

Synonyms

metheglin
vsmead
1 9.9

An alcoholic drink that uses honey and water and has spices or herbs for flavor

is the broader fermented honey and water drink not limited to spices
czworniak
vsmead
9.9

A Polish alcoholic drink made with three parts water and one part honey

is the general fermented honey and water drink not tied to one recipe
hydromel
vsmead
  • Archaic
9.9

A drink of honey mixed with water

is the fermented honey and water drink produced after fermentation

Compounds

5 3.6

A very large manmade lake on the Nevada and Arizona border formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River

How Strong

spirits
17 3.0
liqueur
14 5.6
wine
∞ 1.0
mead
14 8.7
beer
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

mead singular
meads plural

Etymology

Mead comes from an old German word medu meaning 'honey'. So mead is literally a 'honey drink', which helps you remember it as the alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey with water.