Vintage

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vintage \Vint"age\ (?; 48), n. [Corrupted by influence of
     vintner, vintry, from OE. vindage, vendage, for vendange, OF.
     vendenge, F. vendange, from L. vindemia; vinum wine, grapes +
     demere to take off; de + emere, originally, to take. See
     {Wine}, {Redeem}, and cf. {Vindemial}.]
     1. The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in


        wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.
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     2. The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making
        the wine for a season.
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     {Vintage spring}, a wine fount.
  
     {Vintage time}, the time of gathering grapes and making wine.
        --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  vintage
       n 1: a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
       2: the oldness of wines [syn: {time of origin}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "vintage":
     aftermath, aged, antiquated, antique, archaic, bearing, best,
     better, bumper crop, bygone, choice, classic, classical, collector,
     crop, dated, demode, fruit, generation, good, harvest, make,
     matured, mellowed, old, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-time,
     origin, outdated, outmoded, output, over the hill, passe, proceeds,
     produce, product, production, quality, seasoned, second crop,
     select, superior, year, yield