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vintage definition

vin·tage (vintij)

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
  1. the act or season of gathering grapes or of making wine
  2. the type or model of a particular year or period a car of prewar vintage

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

adjective

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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