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# mead

«mead» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sweet drink made from honey and water, sometimes with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (mead, no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mead» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mead/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.