vintage (redirected from vintages)

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).

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[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).]

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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]

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Vintage wine made from the grape-crop of a certain district in a certain year, 1746.

Example: vintage of divinity, 1607.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	vintage - a season's yield of wine from a vineyard vino, wine - fermented juice (of grapes especially)
	2.	vintage - the oldness of wines                 time of origin oldness - the quality of being old; the opposite of newness

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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

adjective 4. classic, old, veteran, historic, heritage, enduring, antique, timeless, old-world, age-old, ageless

Translations

vintage [ˈvɪntɪdʒ] n (= year) → vendimia, cosecha;

the 1970 vintage → la cosecha de 1970

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vintage [ˈvɪntɪdʒ] n (= year) → année f, millésime m

cpd [car] → d'époque; [wine] → de grand cru;

the 1970 vintage → le millésime 1970

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vintage [ˈvɪntɪdʒ] n (of wine) → Jahrgang m

cpd (classic) → klassisch;

the 1980 vintage (of wine) → der Jahrgang 1980

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vintage [ˈvɪntɪdʒ] n (= year) → annata, produzione f;

the 1970 vintage → il vino del 1970

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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 葡萄收获期