wine

American  

[wahyn] / waɪn /

noun

• wines
  plural

1. 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.

2. a particular variety of such fermented grape juice.

   port and sherry wines.

3. the juice, fermented or unfermented, of various other fruits or plants, used as a beverage, sauce, etc..

   gooseberry wine; currant wine.

4. a dark reddish color, as of red wines.

5. Pharmacology. vinum.

6. something that invigorates, cheers, or intoxicates like wine.

7. British.

   1. a social gathering at which wine is the major beverage.

   2. a party, especially one held by university students, for drinking wine.

8. Obsolete. intoxication due to the drinking of wine.

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adjective

1. dark red in color.

verb (used with object)

wined, wining

1. to supply with wine.

   He wined his cellar with rare vintages.

verb (used without object)

wined, wining

1. to drink wine.

idioms

1. new wine in old bottles, something new placed in or superimposed on an old or existing form, system, etc. Matthew 9:17.

2. wine and dine, to entertain lavishly.

   They wined and dined us in order to get us to sign the new contract.

wine British  

/ waɪn /

noun

1. 1. an alcoholic drink produced by the fermenting of grapes with water and sugar

   2. an alcoholic drink produced in this way from other fruits, flowers, etc

      elderberry wine

2. 1. a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge

   2. ( as adjective )

      wine-coloured

3. anything resembling wine in its intoxicating or invigorating effect

4. obsolete pharmacol fermented grape juice containing medicaments

5. a dialect word for water

6. something new added to or imposed upon an old or established order

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verb

1. (intr) to drink wine

2. to entertain or be entertained with wine and fine food

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• wineless
  adjective
• winish
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• wines
  plural

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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 )

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Example Sentences

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wine wines wined wining

Among its more luxurious amenities are a “stunning chef’s kitchen,” a circular stone staircase that leads to a “custom built wine cellar,” and a stunning pool area in the backyard.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

Qiu, who has passports from Cambodia, St. Lucia and Turkey, helped Prince Group launder its funds through an array of money-lending services and business ventures like wine companies, it said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

Another wrote that the object bore no labels indicating that it's a wine bottle.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

There was an open bar with beer and wine, chicken wings, and burgers for the crowd of over 100.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

So dark it was that no one, not even the Prince of Demons, would see the king waiting for him in the shadows, or that the cistern was filled with wine.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

White wines, they said, came in heavier than the reds this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Bigelow said her father built an impressive collection of wines over the years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In the near future, expect to see Skywalker Vineyards wines, including rosé, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

"With global warming the potential has opened up for red wines as well," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Australian red wines are better than Australian white ones.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

“I hadn’t been abroad other than going to Majorca with my family, so to go to America to be picked up in a limo, and be wined and dined was unbelievable,” she recalls.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024

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

"He could drink salad oil By the pint, and not spoil The perfect success of digestion; And having well dined, And copiously wined, He could turn a handspring without question."

From Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various

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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