meed

noun · verbA1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

meeds

1.
(archaic, literary)(now literary, archaic) A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; 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; worth.
In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

meeds

V_ing/Gerund

meeding

V_ed/pp

meeded

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

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

meedful meedlesssosh meed

Từ có viền nét liền là đã có mục từ; viền nét đứt là chưa có trong dữ liệu.

Nguồn gốc từ

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