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Vintage is defined as how much wine was produced in a particular area during one season, the year and region a wine was produced or a specific model of car from a particular production year.

(noun)

An example of vintage is 2003 Napa Valley Pinot Noir.
An example of a vintage is a car of the post war vintage such as a 1954 Chevy Impala.

The definition of vintage is something classic or was made a long time ago

(adjective)

An example of vintage is a dress made in 1955.

See vintage in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

1. the crop or yield of a particular vineyard or grape-growing region in a single season, with reference either to the grapes or to the wine made from them
2. wine; specif., the wine, esp. a prized wine, of a particular region in a specified year
3. the region or year of a particular wine
the act or season of gathering grapes or of making wine
the type or model of a particular year or period: a car of prewar vintage

Origin: ME, earlier vendage < OFr vendange < L vindemia, vintage < vinum, wine (see vine) + demere, to remove < de-, off + emere, to take: see redeem

adjective

of or produced in a particular vintage: said of wine
of a good period, choice, representative of the best, etc.: vintage Hemingway
representative of or dating from a period long past: vintage clothes

See vintage in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
The year or place in which a wine is bottled.
a. The harvesting of a grape crop.
b. The initial stages of winemaking.
Informal
a. A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.
b. A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage.
c. Length of existence; age.

adjective

Of or relating to a vintage.
Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.
Old or outmoded.
a. Of the best: played songs that were vintage Cole Porter.
b. Of the most distinctive: “Fatalism has coexisted with vintage American overconfidence” (Thomas Oliphant).

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Anglo-Norman

Origin: , alteration (influenced by viniter, vintner)

Origin: of Old French vendange

Origin: , from Latin vīndēmia

Origin: : vīnum, grapes

Origin: + dēmere, to take off (dē, de- + emere, to obtain; see em- in Indo-European roots)

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