mead
noun/miːd/
/miːd/
[uncountable]- a sweet alcoholic drink made from honey and water, drunk especially in the pastWord OriginOld English me(o)du, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch mee and German Met, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit madhu ‘sweet drink, honey’ and Greek methu ‘wine’.
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