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- Dictionarymeed/miːd/
noun
- 1. a person's deserved share of praise, honour, etc.: archaic "he must extract from her some meed of approbation"
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A meed is a well-deserved compensation or reward. At a birthday party, every guest hopes to gather his or her meed of candy from the piñata they've worked so hard to smash open.
ˈmēd. 1. archaic : an earned reward or wage. 2. : a fitting return or recompense. Did you know? The word meed is one of the oldest terms in our language, having been part of English for about 1,000 years.
Meed definition: a reward or recompense.. See examples of MEED used in a sentence.
Define meed. meed synonyms, meed pronunciation, meed translation, English dictionary definition of meed. n. Archaic A merited reward or recompense. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
noun. archaic. a recompense; reward. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. Old English: wages; compare Old High German mēta pay. You may also like. Word Frequency. meed in American English. (mid ) noun. 1. Archaic. a merited recompense or reward. 2. Obsolete. a. a bribe. b. merit; worth.
noun. A merited recompense or reward. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. A bribe. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Merit; worth. Webster's New World. (now literary, archaic) A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award. Wiktionary. Synonyms: reward. award. pay. verb
Jun 2, 2024 · meed (plural meeds) (now literary, archaic) A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award . A gift; bribe. ( dated) Merit or desert; worth .
( now literary, archaic) 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:
Mar 27, 2010 · noun That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of desert, good or bad (but usually the former); reward; recompense; award. noun A gift; also, a bribe. noun Merit or desert. To reward; bribe. To deserve or merit. from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
Meaning & use. Pronunciation. Forms. Frequency. Compounds & derived words. Factsheet. What does the noun meed mean? There are ten meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun meed, six of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How common is the noun meed?
