English Explanatory Dictionary

wine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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. A serving of wine.
  4. The color of red wine, a deep reddish purple.
verb
  1. To entertain (someone) with wine.
  2. To drink wine.
noun
  1. Wind.
verb
  1. To perform a Jamaican dance, such as the Dutty Wine.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow computer programs developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems.
  3. Acronym of Windows Emulator.
  4. Acronym of Wine is not an emulator.
name
  1. Alternative form of Wine.

Pronunciation

wīn /waɪn/ en-uk-wine.ogg en-us-wine.ogg

Word forms

wine wines wining wined

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y-? Proto-Indo-European *-ō? Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ō Proto-Italic *wīnom Latin vīnumbor. Proto-Germanic *wīną Proto-West Germanic *wīn Old English wīn Middle English wyn English wine From Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną, either directly or via Latin vīnum (from Proto-Italic *wīnom) from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“wine”). Doublet of vine and vino.

Synonyms

wine vino

Related words

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Derived words

Adam's wine age like a fine wine age like fine wine age like wine altar wine amber wine aperitif wine apple wine barley wine bee wine bishop's wine blush wine bottle of wine box wine bread and wine British wine bum wine burglar's wine cake and wine cask wine cheese with your wine coca wine concrete oil of wine country wine dandelion wine days of wine and roses dessert wine distilled wine elderberry wine flowers of wine fortified wine fruit wine ginger wine good wine needs no bush grape wine high wine honey wine house wine ice wine in wine jug wine liqueur wine low wine made-wine May wine mulled wine new wine new wine in an old bottle new wine in an old wineskin New World wine nonwine oil of wine old wine in a new bottle old wine in new bottles orange wine osmanthus wine palm wine palm-wine palm wine guitar pear wine

Translations

Afrikaans: wyn Aghwan: 𐕔𐔼 Albanian: verë Amharic: ወይን ጠጅ Arabic: نَبِيذ Arabic: خَمْر Arabic: شَرَاب Arabic: نبيت Arabic: خمرة Arabic: خَمُر Arabic: نبيد Arabic: خمر Aragonese: vin Aramaic: ܚܡܪܐ Armenian: գինի Armenian: գինեգույն Old Armenian: գինի Aromanian: yin Assamese: সুৰা Asturian: vinu Avar: чагъир Azerbaijani: şərab Azerbaijani: çaxır Bactrian: μολο Bangi: masanga Bashkir: шарап Basque: ardo Bats: ვეჼ Belarusian: віно́ Bengali: মদ Bengali: শরাব Bourguignon: veing Breton: gwin Bulgarian: ви́но Bulgarian: бордо Burmese: ဝိုင် Buryat: архи Carpathian Rusyn: вино Catalan: vi Chechen: чагӏар Chinese Cantonese: 葡萄酒 Chinese: путоҗю Chinese: 葡萄酒 Hakka Chinese: 葡萄酒 Chinese Mandarin: 葡萄酒 Chinese Mandarin: 果酒 Chinese Mandarin: 酒 Wu Chinese: 葡萄酒 Chuvash: эрех Maore Comorian: vinyo Coptic: ⲏⲣⲡ Coptic: ⲏⲗⲡ Coptic: ⲙⲣⲓⲥ Cornish: gwin Corsican: vinu Crimean Tatar: şarap
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