Wine meaning
Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented fruits and plants, or a purplish red color.
An example of wine is Cabernet Sauvignon made from fermented grapes.
An example of wine as a color is the color of red wine.
noun
Something that intoxicates or exhilarates.
noun
The color of red wine.
noun
To provide or entertain with wine.
verb
To drink wine.
verb
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The fermented juice of grapes, used as an alcoholic beverage and in cooking, religious ceremonies, etc.: wines vary in color (red, white, rosé, etc.) and sugar content (sweet, dry, etc.), may be effervescent (sparkling) or noneffervescent (still), and are sometimes strengthened with additional alcohol (fortified)
noun
The fermented juice of other fruits or plants, used as an alcoholic beverage.
Dandelion wine.
noun
A dark, purplish red resembling the color of red wines.
noun
To provide with or drink wine.
verb
(Wine Is Not an Emulator) Software that runs Windows applications under Linux and Unix on an x86 PC. Wine runs Windows executables intact, trapping calls from the application to the Windows interface, converting them as necessary and directing them to X Window routines, which do the processing. For more information, visit www.winehq.com. See X Window, WABI, Odin and Linspire.
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An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine".
noun
(countable) A serving of wine.
I'd like three beers and two wines, please.
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1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire.
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noun
Anything having an intoxicating or exhilarating effect.
noun
Origin of wine
- Middle English from Old English wīn from Latin vīnum
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English win, from Old English wÄ«n, from Proto-Germanic *wÄ«nÄ… (compare Dutch wijn, German Wein, Icelandic vÃn), from Latin vÄ«num, from Proto-Indo-European *wóihâ‚nom (compare Hittite wiyan [Cuneiform?], Armenian Õ£Õ«Õ¶Õ« (gini), Albanian verë, Ancient Greek οἶνος (oinos), neuter of *wihâ‚ḗn 'grapevine' (compare Ancient Greek wiḗn), from *weih- 'to plait, wattle' (compare Norwegian vegg (“wall"), Latin vieÅ (“to bind, interweave"), Serbo-Croatian vȉjem (“I twist, wind"), Sanskrit [script?] (vájati, “he weaves").
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