Vintage

Quick meaning: Vintage is a noun meaning The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.

Meaning

The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.

More Meanings

1. Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
2. The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.
3. The year or place in which something is produced.
4. (attributively) Of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.
5. (attributively) Having an enduring appeal; high-quality.
6. (transitive) To harvest (grapes).
7. (attributively) Classic, or old enough to be recognizably outdated but not old enough to be antique (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s or 1990s, old magazines, etc.).

Example Sentences

I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

Word Forms

• vintages
• vintaging
• vintaged

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cru, crop, harvesting, harvest, year, old.

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