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Definition of 'meed'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) meede, mede, from (etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.i:
- For well she wist, as true it was indeed, / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deserued as his duefull meed , / Her loue, her seruice, and her vtmost wealth.
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A gift; bribe.
(obsolete) Merit or desert; worth.
* (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)
- My meed hath got me fame.
Derived terms
* (l)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) meden, from (etyl) *.
Verb
( en-verb)
To reward; bribe.
To deserve; merit.
Anagrams
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Similar to 'meed'maid, mood, mead, med, mad, mod, mud, mid, muid, mooed, mewed, mowed, meid, maaed, myoid, maud, myid, mued, mawed
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