wine
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wines
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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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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)
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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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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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And alongside the sparkling wine, the money is flowing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Tom Anderson has owned a neighborhood pub and wine shop at the edge of Eagle Rock for seven years and thinks that offloading commuter traffic could be helpful to the area in the long run.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Those tariffs hit sectors including Canada's furniture and wine industries, as well as sporting and fishing equipment businesses.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
When it reopened in 2024, a San Francisco Chronicle wine critic noted that Signorello, founded in 1977, raised its ambitions after the fire, tapping new wine-making talent and hiking tasting fees to $175.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
They drink wine and eat finger sandwiches and discuss the latest bestseller.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
"You can find our wines really almost everywhere on Earth," he said, noting that exports to the UK accounted for around $1 million a year.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Nonetheless, "the crop already has all the hallmarks of producing great, perhaps even exceptional, wines", the group said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
It’s harvest season in this wine-centric town, which means a flood of activity among the area’s 200 wineries, whose wines draw from more than 60 grape varieties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Some premiers from Canada’s provinces have told reporters that Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked the provinces to prepare to lift their ban on the sale of U.S. wines and spirits at government-run retailers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
“They’ll have Italian wines at a hotel this size.”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
“Family Meal” is a modern updating of the old-fashioned idea of dinner and a show, only this dinner theater presentation isn’t simply about being wined, dined and passively entertained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Beneath gilded portraits and suits of armour in Windsor Castle, 160 guests wined and dined at a lavish banquet to fete US President Donald Trump's unprecedented second state visit to the UK on Wednesday evening.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
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
Hence it was said of him that he dined with slaveholders, and would have wined with them but for his temperance principles.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
The casinos and tracks kept just under $90 million in sports betting revenue after wining bets and other expenses were paid.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
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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