mead

FREQ #18172

n. 蜂蜜酒, 草地 [医] 蜜酒

发音

US /miːd/

词形变化

meads 复数

别名

meath meathe meeth

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.

    蜂蜜酒

    不可数
  2. 2.

    A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.

    美国 不可数
  3. 1.

    A meadow.

    诗歌

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

brew brewage

下位词 1

metheglin

部分词 2

honey hydromel

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-West Germanic *medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; honey wine”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu) (whence English methyl), Lithuanian medùs, Old Church Slavonic медъ (medŭ, “honey”), Persian می (mey), Sanskrit मधु (mádhu), Welsh medd, Finnish mesi, Chinese 蜜 (mì).

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