Vintage Definition
vĭntĭj
noun
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.
Webster's New World
Wine; specif., the wine, esp. a prized wine, of a particular region in a specified year.
Webster's New World
The region or year of a particular wine.
Webster's New World
The act or season of gathering grapes or of making wine.
Webster's New World
The initial stages of winemaking.
American Heritage
adjective
Of or produced in a particular vintage.
Webster's New World
Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.
American Heritage
Representative of the best; choice.
Vintage Hemingway.
Webster's New World
Representative of or dating from a particular period of the past.
Vintage clothes.
Webster's New World
Old or outmoded.
American Heritage
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verb
To harvest (grapes).
Wiktionary
To make (wine) from grapes.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Vintage
Noun
Singular:
vintage
Plural:
vintagesOrigin of Vintage
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From Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, (cognate with French vendange), from Latin vÄ«ndÄ“mia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage"), from vÄ«num (“wine") + dÄ“mō (“take off or away, remove"), from de (“of; from, away from") + emō (“acquire, obtain").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Anglo-Norman alteration (influenced by viniter vintner) of Old French vendange from Latin vīndēmia vīnum grapes dēmere to take off (dē de-) (emere to obtain em- in Indo-European roots)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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