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wine
[ wahyn ]
noun
- 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.
adjective
- dark red in color.
verb (used with object)
- to supply with wine:
He wined his cellar with rare vintages.
verb (used without object)
- to drink wine.
wine
/ ɲɪ /
noun
- an alcoholic drink produced by the fermenting of grapes with water and sugar vinaceousvinous
- an alcoholic drink produced in this way from other fruits, flowers, etc
elderberry wine
- a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- ( as adjective )
wine-coloured
- anything resembling wine in its intoxicating or invigorating effect
- obsolete.pharmacol fermented grape juice containing medicaments
- Adam's winea dialect word for water
- new wine in old bottlessomething new added to or imposed upon an old or established order
verb
- intr to drink wine
- wine and dineto entertain or be entertained with wine and fine food
Derived Forms
- ˈɾԱ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ɾԱl adjective
- ɾi adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of wine1
Word History and Origins
Origin of wine1
Idioms and Phrases
- new wine in old bottles, something new placed in or superimposed on an old or existing form, system, etc. Matthew 9:17.
- wine and dine, to entertain lavishly:
They wined and dined us in order to get us to sign the new contract.
Example Sentences
One woman said he choked her and hit her in the head with a wine bottle.
The store in Irvine will also offer Asian wines and spirits and T&T private label products.
This stylish wine bar perfectly pairs a fried chicken sandwich—topped with cabbage, cucumber, and buttermilk dressing—with a local Aussie vintage.
The 31-year-old has drunk "wine and tequila" from the famous old trophy, which has spent most of the year with his parents because "dad definitely consumes more wine than I do".
"It was probably made in the Levant - the Egypt area - and then was manufactured into vessels, we think, in southern France, and probably arrived here alongside wine in barrels."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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