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# mead

noun (mead, no plural)

«mead» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Mead is a sweet drink made from honey and water, sometimes with spices, drunk long ago at feasts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mead/#m1)

### In the lessons

a drink in old tales, served at feasts and to guests, often in a cup or a horn

### Examples

- The king drank mead at the feast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mead/#x1)
- Will you not give her a glass of mead? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mead/#x2)
- There was bread, meat and mead on the table. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mead/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths; a glass of mead is an amount of liquid, not a count of things

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mead» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mead/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mead» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mead.html) on Mova free.