Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an Iranian people, closely related to the Persians, inhabiting ancient Media.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Middle English forms of
mead and meed. - noun A native or an inhabitant of Media, an ancient kingdom of Asia, south of the Caspian Sea, and later a part of the Persian empire.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A native or inhabitant of Media in Asia.
- noun obsolete See 1st & 2d
mead , andmeed .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An individual belonging to Western
Iranian people who inhabited the ancientregion ofMedia .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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"One man's Mede is another man's Persian." esperanza
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"One man's Mede is another man's Persian." esperanza
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"One man's Mede is another man's Persian." esperanza
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"One man's Mede is another man's Persian." esperanza
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"One man's Mede is another man's Persian." esperanza
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I remember from the Bible that one man's Mede is another man's Persian; another way of saying it is:
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"One man's Mede is another man's Persian." esperanza
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[Footnote: After the absorption of the Median kingdom into that of Persia, the terms Mede and Persian were interchangeably used, with little distinction.]
Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson
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Mede observes, the Hebrew word means always seven of days, and never seven of years (Le 12: 5; De 16: 9, 10, 16).
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Circa 539 B.C., during the reign of Darius the Mede, that is the reign of Cyrus the Persian, Daniel, a Hebrew exile who had been chosen to serve in the court of the king, found himself in a crisis of conscience.
Bethany Blankley: The Biblical Civil Disobedience Mandate Bethany Blankley 2012
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