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单词 meed
释义 meed
\ˈmēd\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English med, meed, from Old English mēd; akin to Old English meord recompense, reward, wage, Old Saxon mēda, Old High German miata, mieta, Gothic mizdo, Greek misthos, Old Slavic mĭzda, mŭzda reward, Sanskrit mīḍha prize, reward, contest
1.
 a. archaic : the reward or wage earned by labor, service, or merit
  < service … needs a receiver as well as a giver and thrives on some small meed of welcome or honor — Freya Stark >
  < as long as slugs abound in the garden, good carbolic acid should not lack its meed of honor — C.E.Montague >
 b. : the proper prize of excellence or fine performance : fitting return
  < pay my meed of tribute to him — Edna R. Johnson >
  < the old man loves us and we give him the meed of our admiration — Western Folklore >
  < might pay, to the dead impresario, the meed of parting tears — J.B.Cabell & A.J.Hanna >
 c. : just desert : fit recompense
  < had suffered the meed of his inhospitable conduct — G.B.Shaw >
 d. : amount, portion
  < the plants of the jungle won success … by adapting their needs to the starvation meed of air and light — William Beebe >
  < breed their own small meed of juvenile delinquency — Sean O'Faolain >
2. archaic : bribery offered or received : illicit gain
3. obsolete : merit, worth
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