Wine definition
To drink wine.
verb
(countable) A serving of wine.
I'd like three beers and two wines, please.
noun
Something that intoxicates or exhilarates.
noun
To provide or entertain with wine.
verb
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.
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The color of red wine.
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A beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various kinds of grapes, usually containing from 10 to 15 percent alcohol by volume.
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A beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various other fruits or plants.
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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)
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The fermented juice of other fruits or plants, used as an alcoholic beverage.
Dandelion wine.
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A dark, purplish red resembling the color of red wines.
noun
To provide with or drink wine.
verb
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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
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
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 vín), from Latin vÄ«num, from Proto-Indo-European *wóih₁nom (compare Hittite wiyan [Cuneiform?], Armenian Õ£Õ«Õ¶Õ« (gini), Albanian verë, Ancient Greek οἶνος (oinos), neuter of *wih₁ḗn 'grapevine' (compare Ancient Greek wiḗn), from *weih- 'to plait, wattle' (compare Norwegian vegg (“wall"), Latin vieō (“to bind, interweave"), Serbo-Croatian vȉjem (“I twist, wind"), Sanskrit [script?] (vájati, “he weaves").
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