mead

alcoholic beverage made from honey
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mead

Summary

mead ranks in the top 0.66% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,459 views/month, #510 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • mead is made of honey[2].
  • mead is made of water[3].
  • mead is made of yeast[4].
  • mead is a type of alcoholic beverage[5].
  • mead is a type of honey liqueur[6].
  • mead's Commons category is recorded as Mead[7].
  • mead comprises water[8].
  • mead comprises yeast[9].
  • mead's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mead[10].
  • mead's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[11].
  • mead's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • mead's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[13].
  • mead's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14].
  • mead's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • mead's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[16].
  • mead's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[17].
  • mead's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ang', 'text': 'Mead'}[18].
  • mead's different from is recorded as sima[19].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include alcoholic beverage[5] and honey liqueur[6].

Use and Application

Components include water[8], a type of chemical entity[20] and yeast[9], a food ingredient[21].

Why It Matters

mead ranks in the top 0.66% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,459 views/month, #510 of 77,819).[1] mead has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] mead is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17h 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 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007558277405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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