different between mead vs cider

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?d, IPA^(key): /mi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophone: meed

Etymology 1

From Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u (“honey; honey wine”).

Noun

mead (usually uncountable, plural meads)

1. An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
2. (US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.

Alternative forms

• meath, meathe, meeth (all obsolete)

Derived terms

• mead-bench
• mead cup
• meaded
• meadery
• mead hall

Translations

See also

• bragget (“drink made from ale, honey & spices”)
• ambrosia (noun)
• mead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English mede (“meadow”), from Old English m?d. Cognate with West Frisian miede, Mede, German Low German Meed, Dutch made.

Noun

mead (plural meads)

1. (poetic) A meadow.
   • c. 1817, John Keats, Hither, hither, love —:

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

   • 1848, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 28:

     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 […] .

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles:

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

   • 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath:

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

Derived terms

• Temple Meads
• Thamesmead

Anagrams

• ADEM, ADME, Adem, Dame, Edam, MEDA, dame, made

Spanish

Verb

mead

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of mear.

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Etymology

From Middle English mede, from Old English m?d.

Noun

mead

1. meadow

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English sider, cidre, sidre, from Old French cisdre, sidre (“beverage made from fermented apples”), from Medieval Latin s?cera, from Ancient Greek ?????? (síkera, “fermented liquor, strong drink”), from Hebrew ??????? (š???r, “liquor”). Doublet of cyser.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sa??.d?/, enPR: s??d?r
• (New England, Great Lakes) IPA^(key): [?s???.d?(?)]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sa??.d?/
• Rhymes: -a??d?(?)

Noun

cider (countable and uncountable, plural ciders)

1. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples; hard cider; apple cider
2. (US, Canada) A non-alcoholic still beverage consisting of the juice of early-harvest apples, usually unfiltered and still containing pulp; apple cider; sweet cider (without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice).

   She liked an aged cider. He liked a harder cider.

3. (Australia) A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples.
4. (Japan, South Korea) A non-alcoholic, lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage.
5. (countable) A cup, glass, or serving of any of these beverages.

Synonyms

• (alcoholic beverage): hard cider (US)
• (US: non-alcoholic beverage): sweet cider

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Calvados
• perry
• scrumpy

Anagrams

• Deric, IRCed, Redic, cried, deric, dicer, riced

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sider, from Old French sidre, from Latin sicera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si.d?r/
• Hyphenation: ci?der
• Rhymes: -id?r

Noun

cider m (plural ciders, diminutive cidertje n)

1. cider.

   Synonyms: appelcider, appelwijn

Related terms

• sikker
• sjikker