mead

Etymology 1

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”).

noun

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.

Etymology 2

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

noun

1. (poetic) A meadow.
   Hither, hither, love — / ‘Tis a shady mead — / Hither, hither, love! / Let us feed and feed! c. 1817, John Keats, Hither, hither, love -
   There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, …. 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath