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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Now, it’s known for incredible lamb, cheese, wine and fruit inspired by the natural, high-quality, hard-working traditions of generations of Māori.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
At the checkout, another older man asked about the wine I was carefully laying down sideways on the fast-moving conveyor belt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
It made no sense for politicians in 1776 to sit in a room trying to balance the trade deficit of imported wine over exported British wool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
She said Donaldson would have had a glass of wine at events but she never saw him drinking too much.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
And that’s just fine; Axel doesn’t drink the wine anyway.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
To counter this, Willcocks recommends popping all red wines in the fridge for 10 minutes before serving.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Instead, all the wines offered during the two-hour session in Didsbury came straight from the fridge.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
In Portugal, we are doing a lot with wines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Red wines from Bordeaux were next, at 220 million euros, followed by whites from Burgundy at 170 million euros.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Australian red wines are better than Australian white ones.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
“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
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
In Xiamen in the 1980s, they worked together to set up industrial parks for factories and then wined and dined potential investors from other regions of China, as well as Taiwan and Hong Kong.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
Strangely enough, however, it never occurred to me to cut down my personal expenses, and I continued living at the same extravagant rate as when money was plenty—dining and wining and being dined and wined.
From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin
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
Jon's prediction: I think United might keep it going after wining the derby.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 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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