Wine (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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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. vinum.
  6. something that invigorates, cheers, or intoxicates like wine.
  7. British.
    • a social gathering at which wine is the major beverage.
    • a party, especially one held by university students, for drinking wine.
  8. intoxication due to the drinking of wine.
adjective
  1. dark red in color.
verb (used with object), wined, win·ing.
  1. to supply with wine: He wined his cellar with rare vintages.
verb (used without object), wined, win·ing.
  1. to drink wine.
Idioms
  1. something new placed in or superimposed on an old or existing form, system, etc. Matthew 9:17.
  2. to entertain lavishly: They wined and dined us in order to get us to sign the new contract.
noun
    • an alcoholic drink produced by the fermenting of grapes with water and sugar
    • an alcoholic drink produced in this way from other fruits, flowers, etc
    • a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
    • (as adjective)
  3. anything resembling wine in its intoxicating or invigorating effect
  4. fermented grape juice containing medicaments
  5. Adam's wine British a dialect word for water
  6. something new added to or imposed upon an old or established order
verb
  1. to drink wine
  2. to entertain or be entertained with wine and fine food
Wine (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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