Wine

Pronunciation

• enPR: wÄ«n, IPA: /waɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn
• Homophones: whine in accents with the wine-whine merger

From Middle English win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną (compare Dutch wijn, German Wein, Icelandic vín), from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Indo-European *wóih₁nom (compare Hittite wiyan , Armenian գինի, Albanian verë, Ancient Greek οἶνος, neuter of *wih₁ḗn 'grapevine' (compare Ancient Greek wiḗn), from *weih- 'to plait, wattle' (compare Norwegian vegg ("wall"), Latin vieō ("to bind, interweave"), Serbo-Croatian vȉjem ("I twist, wind"), Sanskrit (vájati, "he weaves").

Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages, s.v. “vīnum” (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 680.

J.P. Mallory and D.Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, s.v. “wine” (London: Fritzroy Dearborn, 1997), 644.

Full definition of wine

Noun

1. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting juice of grapes.Wine is stronger than beer.She ordered some wine for the meal.
2. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine".
3. (countable) A serving of wine.I'd like three beers and two wines, please.
4. (uncountable) A dark purplish red colour; the colour of red wine.

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Verb

1. (transitive) To entertain with wine.
• 1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 159:Neither Major Wadhams nor I is accustomed to being wined and dined by perfect strangers who do not even present themselves, but leave servants to do the honors, consequently to both of us our present situation smacks of romance and adventure;
2. (intransitive) To drink wine.
• 1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The ClockmakerI rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing.

Noun

1. (nonstandard, British) wind
• 1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century:Vor voices rawze upon tha wine
• 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire:Aw how sholl I tell o’m—vor âll pirty maidens
• When I pass’d ’em look’d back—ther smill rawze on tha wine.----