vintage

[ vin-tij ]

/ ˈvɪn tɪdʒ /

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noun

the wine from a particular harvest or crop.

the annual produce of the grape harvest, especially with reference to the wine obtained.

an exceptionally fine wine from the crop of a good year.

the time of gathering grapes, or of winemaking.

the act or process of producing wine; winemaking.

the class of a dated object with reference to era of production or use: a hat of last year's vintage.

adjective

of or relating to wines or winemaking.

being of a specified vintage: Vintage wines are usually more expensive than nonvintage wines.

representing the high quality of a past time: vintage cars; vintage movies.

old-fashioned or obsolete: vintage jokes.

being the best of its kind: They praised the play as vintage O'Neill.

verb (used with object), vin·taged, vin·tag·ing.

to gather or harvest (grapes) for wine-making: The muscats were vintaged too early.

to make (wine) from grapes: a region that vintages a truly great champagne.

verb (used without object), vin·taged, vin·tag·ing.

to harvest grapes for wine-making.

Nearby words

vinous, vins, vinson, vinson massif, vinson, frederick moore, vintage, vintage car, vintage wine, vintage year, vintager, vintner

Origin of vintage

1400–50; late Middle English (noun) < Anglo-French, equivalent to vint(er) vintner + -age -age; replacing Middle English vindage, vendage < Anglo-French; Old French vendange < Latin vīndēmia grape-gathering, equivalent to vīn(um) grape, wine + -dēmia a taking away (dēm(ere) to take from (see redeem) + -ia -y³)

Related forms

non·vin·tage, adjective, nounun·vin·taged, adjective

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Examples from the Web for vintage

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In 1998, Joel Thomas Zimmerman was 16 years old, noodling around with vintage DOS music software like Impulse Tracker.
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Its microclimate and soil cannot be replicated, nor can the wine (a bottle of the 1999 vintage fetches $1,795).
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It was on the Internet that Amoruso turned her love of vintage clothing into a successful business.
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Nothing but the stern necessity of returning to work could have kept me from seeing the vintage out.
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Too soon were we also for "the heyday of the vintage, when Nature is pouring her abundance into everyone's lap."
East of Paris|Matilda Betham-Edwards
Then, too, the vintage commenced and lasted for about fifteen days,—days of enchantment for us.
The Story of a Child|Pierre Loti
Those relating to the date of the vintage are of peculiar interest.
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To know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask.
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British Dictionary definitions for vintage

vintage

/ (ˈvɪntɪdʒ) /

noun

the wine obtained from a harvest of grapes, esp in an outstandingly good year, referred to by the year involved, the district, or the vineyard

the harvest from which such a wine is obtained

the harvesting of wine grapes
the season of harvesting these grapes or for making wine

a time of origina car of Edwardian vintage

informal a group of people or objects of the same perioda fashion of last season's vintage

adjective

(of wine) of an outstandingly good year

representative of the best and most typicalvintage Shakespeare

of lasting interest and importance; venerable; classicvintage films

old-fashioned; dated

verb

(tr) to gather (grapes) or make (wine)

Word Origin for vintage

C15: from Old French vendage (influenced by vintener vintner), from Latin vindēmia, from vīnum wine, grape + dēmere to take away (from dē- away + emere to take)

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vintage

noun

adjective

verb (used with object), vin·taged, vin·tag·ing.

verb (used without object), vin·taged, vin·tag·ing.

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