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Audio Help [wahyn] Pronunciation Key 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.

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.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME (n.), OE wīn (c. D wijn, G Wein, ON vīn, Goth wein) ≪ L vīnum (c. Gk oǐnos)

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—Related forms

wineless, adjective

winish, adjective

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wine Audio Help (wīn) Pronunciation Key
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.
Something that intoxicates or exhilarates.
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.]

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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.

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wine
noun
1.	fermented juice (of grapes especially)
2.	a red as dark as red wine
verb
1.	drink wine
2.	treat to wine; "Our relatives in Italy wined and dined us for a week"

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
wine [wain] noun

a type of alcoholic drink made from the fermented juice of grapes or other fruit
Example: two bottles of wine; a wide range of inexpensive wines

Arabic:	نَبيذ
Chinese (Simplified):	果子酒
Chinese (Traditional):	果子酒
Czech:	víno
Danish:	vin
Dutch:	wijn
Estonian:	vein
Finnish:	viini
French:	vin
German:	der Wein
Greek:	κρασί
Hungarian:	bor
Icelandic:	vín
Indonesian:	anggur
Italian:	vino

Japanese:	ぶどう酒
Korean:	포도주
Latvian:	vīns
Lithuanian:	vynas
Norwegian:	vin
Polish:	wino
Portuguese (Brazil):	vinho
Portuguese (Portugal):	vinho
Romanian:	vin
Russian:	вино
Slovak:	víno
Slovenian:	vino
Spanish:	vino
Swedish:	vin
Turkish:	şarap