vintner
vintner
Definition
vint·ner (vint′nər)
noun
- a person who sells wine; wine merchant
- a person who makes wine
Etymology: altered < ME viniter, vintner < OFr vinetier < ML vinetarius < L vinetum, vineyard < vinum: see vine
vintner
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- become: He became a vintner, following his father's trade.
Adjective modifier
- Swiss: As a countermeasure, Swiss vintners are creating rare wines will distinguish their product from high volume imports from the New World.
- old: After 6 generations the Jeffersons are the oldest family run vintners in England.
Noun used with modifier
- apprentice: On 23 January 1626 Harris's apprentice vintner Humphrey Boddicott ( whom he had inherited from his father ) was admitted free.
Browse dictionary entries near vintner
- vintager
- vintage
- Vinson
- vinous
- vino
- Vinland
- vinify
- vinification
- viniferous
- vinifera
- viny
- vinyl
- vinyl alcohol
- vinyl chloride
- vinyl plastic
- vinyl resin
- vinylidene
- vinylidene resin
- viol
- viola
