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meed - What does it mean?

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.
  • *
  • A gift; bribe.
  • (obsolete) Merit or desert; worth.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)
  • My meed hath got me fame.
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    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