wine
- the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
- a particular variety of such fermented grape juice: port and sherry wines.
- the juice, fermented or unfermented, of various other fruits or plants, used as a beverage, sauce, etc.: gooseberry wine; currant wine.
- a dark reddish color, as of red wines.
- Pharmacology. vinum.
- something that invigorates, cheers, or intoxicates like wine.
- British.
- a social gathering at which wine is the major beverage.
- a party, especially one held by university students, for drinking wine.
- Obsolete. intoxication due to the drinking of wine.
- dark red in color.
- to supply with wine: He wined his cellar with rare vintages.
- to drink wine.
- new wine in old bottles, something new placed in or superimposed on an old or existing form, system, etc. Matt. 9:17.
- wine and dine, to entertain lavishly: They wined and dined us in order to get us to sign the new contract.
Origin of wine
Related Words for wine
color, mauve, plum, lilac, lavender, periwinkle, violet, rose, flaming, maroon, glowing, cardinal, crimson, coral, wine, booze, liqueur, liquor, alcohol, bubblyExamples from the Web for wine
Contemporary Examples of wine
I guess we know how Bacchus kept his title as the god of wine and intoxication.
The possibilities seem endless: Who needs a trip to the liquor store when the toddler can turn water into wine, amirite?
“Enjoying the bubbles is as important as enjoying the wine,” Goldston says.
The wine cellar—one of the best in the world—survived World War II and is guarded around the clock.
You meant to chase every glass of wine with a pitcher of H2O, but the holiday cheer somehow steered you off course.
Historical Examples of wine
It is needless to say that Sack is the wine preferred by him.
But now with every sip of wine the temptation came stronger and stronger.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
Three jacks of the wine of the country, Michel—for the air bites shrewdly.
The White CompanyArthur Conan Doyle
"I will neither drink your wine nor sit at your table," returned the other.
The White CompanyArthur Conan Doyle
I filled my life to the very brim with pleasure, as one might fill a cup to the very brim with wine.
De ProfundisOscar Wilde
wine
- an alcoholic drink produced by the fermenting of grapes with water and sugarRelated adjectives: vinaceous, vinous
- an alcoholic drink produced in this way from other fruits, flowers, etcelderberry wine
- a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- (as adjective)wine-coloured
- anything resembling wine in its intoxicating or invigorating effect
- pharmacol obsolete fermented grape juice containing medicaments
- Adam's wine British a dialect word for water
- new wine in old bottles something new added to or imposed upon an old or established order
- (intr) to drink wine
- wine and dine to entertain or be entertained with wine and fine food
Word Origin for wine
Word Origin and History for wine
Old English win, from Proto-Germanic *winam (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German win, Old Norse vin, Dutch wijn, German Wein), an early borrowing from Latin vinum "wine," from PIE *win-o-, from an Italic noun related to words for "wine" in Greek (oinos), Armenian, Hittite, and non-Indo-European Georgian and West Semitic (cf. Arabic wain, Hebrew yayin), probably from a lost Mediterranean language word *win-/*woin- "wine." Also from Latin vinum are Old Church Slavonic vino, Lithuanian vynas, Welsh gwin, Old Irish fin. Essentially the same word as vine (q.v.). Wine snob is recorded from 1951.
"entertain with wine," 1862, from wine (n.). Related: Wined; wining.