MEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meed mean? 

• MEED (noun)
  The noun MEED has 1 sense:

1. a fitting reward

  Familiarity information: MEED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fitting reward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("meed" is a kind of...):

reward (payment made in return for a service rendered)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

 Context examples 

I am obliged to you: it is the meed teachers most covet—praise of their pupils' progress.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I hold that the more arid and unreclaimed the soil where the Christian labourer's task of tillage is appointed him—the scantier the meed his toil brings—the higher the honour.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Miss Temple is full of goodness; it pains her to be severe to any one, even the worst in the school: she sees my errors, and tells me of them gently; and, if I do anything worthy of praise, she gives me my meed liberally.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)