Mede

 
Pronunciation: /miːd/

noun

  • a member of an Indo-European people who inhabited ancient Media, establishing an extensive empire during the 7th century bc.

Phrases

law of the Medes and Persians

something which cannot be altered: God’s laws of nature were like those of the Medes and the Persians, which changed not
[with biblical allusion to Dan. vi. 12]

Origin:

from Latin Medi, Greek Mēdoi, plural forms