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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An ancient Greek beverage consisting of wine and honey.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A drink made of wine mixed with honey. Compare mead, metheglin, and hydromel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Wine mixed with honey; mead.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A beverage made of wine and honey.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun wine mixed with honey

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin oenomeli, from Greek oinomeli : oinos, wine + meli, honey; see melit- in Indo-European roots.]

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oeno- + Latin mel ("honey")

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