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wine

  [wahyn] noun, adjective, verb, wined, win⋅ing.
–noun
1. the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
2. a particular variety of such fermented grape juice: port and sherry wines.
3. the juice, fermented or unfermented, of various other fruits or plants, used as a beverage, sauce, etc.: gooseberry wine; currant wine.
4. a dark reddish color, as of red wines.
5. Pharmacology. vinum.
6. something that invigorates, cheers, or intoxicates like wine.
7. British.
a. a social gathering at which wine is the major beverage.
b. a party, esp. one held by university students, for drinking wine.
8. Obsolete. intoxication due to the drinking of wine.
–adjective
9. dark red in color.
–verb (used with object)
10. to supply with wine: He wined his cellar with rare vintages.
–verb (used without object)
11. to drink wine.
—Idioms
12. new wine in old bottles, something new placed in or superimposed on an old or existing form, system, etc. Matt. 9:17.
13. wine and dine, to entertain lavishly: They wined and dined us in order to get us to sign the new contract.
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Origin:
bef. 900; ME (n.), OE wīn (c. D wijn, G Wein, ON vīn, Goth wein) ≪ L vīnum (c. Gk oînos)

Related forms:
wineless, adjective
winish, adjective
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wine   (wīn)   
n.  

    1. A beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various kinds of grapes, usually containing from 10 to 15 percent alcohol by volume.

    2. A beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various other fruits or plants.

  2. Something that intoxicates or exhilarates.

  3. The color of red wine.

v.   wined, win·ing, wines

v.   tr.
To provide or entertain with wine.
v.   intr.
To drink wine.

[Middle English, from Old English wīn, from Latin vīnum.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

wine 
O.E. win, from P.Gmc. *winam (cf. O.S., O.Fris., O.H.G. win, O.N. vin, Du. wijn, Ger. Wein), an early borrowing from L. vinum "wine," from PIE *win-o-, from an Italic noun related to words for "wine" in Gk. (oinos), Armenian, Hittite, and non-I.E. Georgian and West Semitic (cf. Arabic wain, Heb. yayin), probably from a lost Mediterranean language word *win-/*woin- "wine." Also from L. vinum are O.C.S. vino, Lith. vynas, Welsh gwin, O.Ir. fin. Essentially the same word as vine (q.v.). The verb meaning "entertain with wine" is attested from 1862. Winery first recorded 1882, Amer.Eng. Wine snob is recorded from 1951.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: wine
Pronunciation: 'wIn
Function: noun
1 : fermented grape juice containing varying percentages of alcohol together with ethers andesters that give it bouquet and flavor
2 : a pharmaceutical preparation using wine as a vehicle
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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