mead

alcoholic beverage made from honey
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Summary

mead ranks in the top 0.66% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15,624 views/month, #510 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Made from material: honey[2], water[3], yeast[4]
  • Subclass of: alcoholic beverage[5], honey liqueur[6]
  • Commons category: Mead[7]
  • Has part(s): water[8], yeast[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Mead[10]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[13], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[16], Pauly–Wissowa[17]
  • Native label: Mead[18]
  • Different from: sima[19]

Why It Matters

mead has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] mead is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Objects/Mead
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Objects/Mead, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0009382-medovina
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0009382-medovina, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Made from material → honey, water, yeast
    Subclass of → —
    Different from → sima
    Has parts → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007558277405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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