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vin⋅tage

  [vin-tij] noun, adjective, verb, -taged, -tag⋅ing.
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–noun
1. the wine from a particular harvest or crop.
2. the annual produce of the grape harvest, esp. with reference to the wine obtained.
3. an exceptionally fine wine from the crop of a good year.
4. the time of gathering grapes, or of winemaking.
5. the act or process of producing wine; winemaking.
6. the class of a dated object with reference to era of production or use: a hat of last year's vintage.
–adjective
7. of or pertaining to wines or winemaking.
8. being of a specified vintage: Vintage wines are usually more expensive than nonvintage wines.
9. representing the high quality of a past time: vintage cars; vintage movies.
10. old-fashioned or obsolete: vintage jokes.
11. being the best of its kind: They praised the play as vintage O'Neill.
–verb (used with object)
12. to gather or harvest (grapes) for wine-making: The muscats were vintaged too early.
13. to make (wine) from grapes: a region that vintages a truly great champagne.
–verb (used without object)
14. to harvest grapes for wine-making.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME (n.) < AF, equiv. to vint(er) vintner + -age -age; r. ME vindage, vendage < AF; OF vendange < L vīndēmia grape-gathering, equiv. to vīn(um) grape, wine + -dēmia a taking away (dēm(ere) to take from (see redeem ) + -ia -y 3 )
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vin·tage   (vĭn'tĭj)   
n.  
  1. The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
  2. Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
  3. The year or place in which a wine is bottled.
    1. The harvesting of a grape crop.
    2. The initial stages of winemaking.
    3. A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.
    4. A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage.
    5. Length of existence; age.
  5. Informal
    1. A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.
    2. A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage.
    3. Length of existence; age.
adj.  
  1. Of or relating to a vintage.
  2. Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.
  3. Old or outmoded.
    1. Of the best: played songs that were vintage Cole Porter.
    2. Of the most distinctive: "Fatalism has coexisted with vintage American overconfidence" (Thomas Oliphant).

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, alteration (influenced by viniter, vintner) of Old French vendange, from Latin vīndēmia : vīnum, grapes + dēmere, to take off (dē, de- + emere, to obtain; see em- in Indo-European roots).]
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Vintage

Vint"age\ (?; 48), n. [Corrupted by influence of vintner, vintry, from OE. vindage, vendage, for vendange, OF. vendenge, F. vendange, from L. vindemia; vinum wine, grapes + demere to take off; de + emere, originally, to take. See Wine, Redeem, and cf. Vindemial.]

1. The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.

2. The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season.

Vintage spring, a wine fount.

Vintage time, the time of gathering grapes and making wine. --Milton.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : vintage
Spanish: cosecha; (de) añada,
German: der Jahrgang,
Japanese: 当り年のぶどうの収穫
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vintage 
c.1450, "harvest of grapes, yield of wine from a vineyard," from Anglo-Fr. vintage (1353), from O.Fr. vendage "yield from a vineyard," from L. vindemia "a gathering of grapes, yield of grapes," from comb. form of vinum "wine" + stem of demere "take off" (from de- "from, away from" + emere "to take;" see exempt). Sense shifted to "age or year of a particular wine" (1746), then to a general sense of "being of an earlier time" (1883). Used of cars since 1928.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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