wine
Americannoun
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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.
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a particular variety of such fermented grape juice.
port and sherry wines.
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the juice, fermented or unfermented, of various other fruits or plants, used as a beverage, sauce, etc..
gooseberry wine; currant wine.
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a dark reddish color, as of red wines.
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Pharmacology. vinum.
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something that invigorates, cheers, or intoxicates like wine.
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British.
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a social gathering at which wine is the major beverage.
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a party, especially one held by university students, for drinking wine.
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Obsolete. intoxication due to the drinking of wine.
adjective
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
idioms
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new wine in old bottles, something new placed in or superimposed on an old or existing form, system, etc. Matthew 9:17.
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wine and dine, to entertain lavishly.
They wined and dined us in order to get us to sign the new contract.
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an alcoholic drink produced by the fermenting of grapes with water and sugar
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an alcoholic drink produced in this way from other fruits, flowers, etc
elderberry wine
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a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
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( as adjective )
wine-coloured
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anything resembling wine in its intoxicating or invigorating effect
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obsolete pharmacol fermented grape juice containing medicaments
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a dialect word for water
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something new added to or imposed upon an old or established order
verb
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(intr) to drink wine
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to entertain or be entertained with wine and fine food
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Etymology
Origin of wine
First recorded before 900; Middle English (noun), Old English wīn (cognate with Dutch wijn, German Wein, Old Norse vīn, Gothic wein ), ultimately derived from Latin vīnum (cognate with Greek oînos )
Vocabulary lists containing wine
Example Sentences
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A White House fact sheet said the new US tariffs will cover "products ranging from wine to hockey sticks to cement."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
WASHINGTON—President Trump imposed an additional 50% tariff on certain goods from Canada, including wine, hockey sticks and cement, the White House announced Monday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
And those who did seemed to be drinking less wine than usual.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
An invasive insect has been found on California grapevines, threatening the state’s wine industry, experts say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
By-and-by he bound up my wound, and sent me downstairs to get a glass of wine for myself.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
In contrast, big-bodied red wines taste bitter and metallic when they're served lower than 16C, says Bartolotta.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
English and organic red wines, which he says can taste tarter, are among his favourites to drink chilled.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The drink’s evolution has included more sparkling wines made with red wine grapes, such as Pinot Noir and Cabernet Franc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
In Portugal, we are doing a lot with wines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
One of these was reserved for the very finest wines, stored in amphorae, great earthenware jars with pointed bases, resting in metal stands.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
He entertained, wined and dined, and flew people around for vacations at his various properties.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Everyone knows that his cultivated image of a wealthy playboy who wined and dined beautiful women like he was some kind of matinee idol is another one of his lies.
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
Stern: So Leo first says, basically: “You’d have to be an absolute moron to think that getting wined and dined by billionaires would change any justice’s vote.”
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2023
The president wined and dined multinational chief executives, creating an annual gathering at Versailles called “Choose France.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
Every winter he dined and wined them, and, although his dining-room in the Morgan House was of goodly size, he was forced to make a three days' job of it.
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley
On day one of the contest, Chompie successfully demonstrated how to hack one system linked to Nvidia - wining $20,000.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
To keep top users happy, AI companies are treating them like VIPs, responding swiftly to their complaints on social media, or even wining and dining them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
The stock had been on a roll in 2026, as the 1.3% decline on Monday snapped a seven-session wining streak to close Friday at a record high.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026
Up next is a clash on Monday in Detroit, where the Lions will be aiming to bounce back from a loss to Kansas City that snapped their four-game wining streak.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
Two loaves of bread and what was left of Eddie’s wining jug was all the supply.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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