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vintage

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vin·tage  (vntj)
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.
4.
a. The harvesting of a grape crop.
b. The initial stages of winemaking.
5. Informal
a. A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.
b. A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage.
c. 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.
4.
a. Of the best: played songs that were vintage Cole Porter.
b. 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 vndmia : vnum, grapes + dmere, to take off (d, de- + emere, to obtain; see em- in Indo-European roots).]

vintage
Noun
1. the wine obtained from a particular harvest of grapes
2. the harvest from which such a wine is obtained
3. a time of origin: an open-necked shirt of uncertain vintage
Adjective
1. (of wine) of an outstandingly good year
2. representative of the best and most typical: a vintage Saint Laurent dress [Latin vindemia]

Vintage wine made from the grape-crop of a certain district in a certain year, 1746.
Example: vintage of divinity, 1607.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.vintagevintage - a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
vino, wine - fermented juice (of grapes especially)
2.vintagevintage - the oldness of wines                
oldness - the quality of being old; the opposite of newness

vintage
noun 1. (of a wine) harvest, year, crop, yield
noun 2. era, period, origin, sort, type, generation, stamp, epoch, ilk, time of origin
adjective 3. (of a wine) high-quality, best, prime, quality, choice, select, rare, superior
Translations
vintage [ˈvɪntɪdʒ] n (= year) → vendimia, cosecha;
the 1970 vintage → la cosecha de 1970

vintage [ˈvɪntɪdʒ] n (= year) → année f, millésime m
cpd [car] → d'époque; [wine] → de grand cru;
the 1970 vintage → le millésime 1970

vintage [ˈvɪntɪdʒ] n (of wine) → Jahrgang m
cpd (classic) → klassisch;
the 1980 vintage (of wine) → der Jahrgang 1980

vintage [ˈvɪntɪdʒ] n (= year) → annata, produzione f;
the 1970 vintage → il vino del 1970

vintage
n vintage [ˈvintidʒ]
(a wine from) the grape-harvest of a certain (particularly good) year What vintage is this wine?; a vintage year (= a year in which good wine was produced); vintage port (= port from a vintage year). goeie jaar موسِم جَنْي العِنَب реколта (dobrý) ročník årgang; årgangs- der Jahrgang σοδειά, τρύγος cosecha; (de) añada (veini) aastakäik محصول انگور یا شراب هر سال vuosikerta (bonne) année יַיִן מִבָּצִיר שֶׁל- अंगूर इकठ्ठा करने का समय berba szüret; évi bortermés; vmilyen évjárat(ú bor) tahun pembuatan (góður) árgangur; ársuppskera annata; vendemmia 当り年のぶどうの収穫 (어떤 특정 지역·수확기의) 포도 수확고 (geras) vynuogių derlius, (vieno derliaus) vynuogių vynas vīnogu novākšana/raža vintaj wijnoogst, goed wijnjaar (god) årgang (dobry) rocznik ano de produção recoltă, producţie a unui an вино урожая определённого года úroda vína; ročník, al. druh vína letnik vina kvalitetno vino god årgång เหล้าองุ่น bağ bozumu 葡萄收獲期 врожай певного року کسي مخصوص سال کے انگور کي شراب mùa hái nho 葡萄


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A VINE was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes.
Nevertheless, he was a fine man; he led a joyous cardinal's life, liked to enliven himself with the royal vintage of Challuau, did not hate Richarde la Garmoise and Thomasse la Saillarde, bestowed alms on pretty girls rather than on old women,--and for all these reasons was very agreeable to the populace of Paris.
He told them a good many humorous anecdotes, and always forgot the nub, but they were always able to furnish it, for these yarns were of a pretty early vintage, and they had had many a rejuvenating pull at them before.
 
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