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You can make 13 words from meed according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of meed

meed emed meed emed eemd eemd mede emde mdee dmee edme deme mede emde mdee dmee edme deme eedm eedm edem deem edem deem

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word meed. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in meed.

Definitions and meaning of meed

meed

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /miːd/
• Homophone: mead
• Rhymes: -iːd

Etymology 1

From Middle English meede, mede, from Old English mēd, meord, meard, meorþ (“meed, reward, pay, price, compensation, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu, from Proto-Germanic *mizdō (“meed”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰéh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”).

Cognate with obsolete Dutch miede (“wages”), Low German mede (“payment, wages, reward”), German Miete (“rent”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌳𐍉 (mizdō, “meed, reward, payment, recompense”), Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós, “wage”), Old Church Slavonic мьзда (mĭzda, “reward”), Sanskrit मीळ्ह (mīḷhá), Sanskrit मीढ (mīḍhá), Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda).

Noun

meed (plural meeds)

1. (now literary, archaic) A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.
   • 1880, translation by Richard Francis Burton of Os Lusiadas, Canto IX, stanza 93 by Luís de Camões

     Better to merit and the meed to miss,
     than, lacking merit, every meed possess.

2. A gift; bribe.
3. (dated) Merit or desert; worth.
   • 1934, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Commentary on The Holy Qur'an, note 3687 on 33:16:

     In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:meed.

Derived terms

• meedful
• meedless

Etymology 2

From Middle English meden, from Old English *mēdian (“to reward, bribe”), from Proto-Germanic *mizdōną (“to reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰ- (“to pay”). Cognate with Middle Low German mēden (“to reward”), German mieten (“to rent”).

Verb

meed (third-person singular simple present meeds, present participle meeding, simple past and past participle meeded)

1. (transitive) To reward; bribe.
2. (transitive) To deserve; merit.

See also

• sosh meed

Anagrams

• Deem, Mede, deem, deme

Central Franconian

Adjective

meed

1. Alternative spelling of med

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːt

Verb

meed

1. singular past indicative of mijden

Anagrams

• mede

Estonian

Noun

meed

1. nominative plural of mesi

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

meed

1. Alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)

Etymology 2

Noun

meed

1. Alternative form of mede (“meadow”)

Etymology 3

Noun

meed

1. Alternative form of mede (“reward”)

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German möde, from Old Saxon mōthi, from Proto-West Germanic *mōþī.

Adjective

meed

1. tired, weary, fatigued, fagged

   hee wia sea meed

   he was very tired

Antonyms

• munta (brisk, lively)

Derived terms

• äwameed (overtired)
• huntmeed (dog-tired)

See also

• schleeprich (sleepy)
• hoojoonen (to sigh, to yawn)
• enoolent (tired of, sick of)
• kjnirr (weary)

Further reading

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words