Definitions
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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Examples
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For the coffee ” thank you, indeed thank you, but nothing after the 'oenomel' and before half past six.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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The English may think of him as they please! and for them, or some of them, there is "a better oenomel," a _vinum Dæmonum_, which Byron has not in his gift.
The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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