Meaning

An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%..

Definitions by Sense

1. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
2. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV.
3. (countable) A serving of wine.
4. (uncountable) The color of red wine, a deep reddish purple.
5. (transitive) To entertain (someone) with wine.
6. (intransitive) To drink wine.
7. (British dialect) Wind.
8. (dance, intransitive) To perform a Jamaican dance, such as the Dutty Wine.

Example Sentences

Wine is usually stronger than beer.

"Wine improves with age but I improve with wine," she slurred as she slid gracefully beneath the table.

And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine! Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.

In Europe then [1925] we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary, and I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking either wine or cider or beer.

Admirers of Israel’s kosher and nonkosher wines need the 2007 edition of “Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines” (Toby Press, $19.95).

The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates promoted wine for various purposes, including reducing fevers and dressing wounds.

...dandelion wine, rice wine, plum wine...

I'd like three beers and two wines, please. My friend will have the same.

Word Forms

• wines
• wining
• wined

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Use wine when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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