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vin·tage
(vĭn′tĭj)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 vīndēmia : vīnum, grapes + dēmere, to take off (dē, de- + emere, to obtain; see em- in Indo-European roots).]
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vintage
(ˈvɪntɪdʒ)n
1. (Brewing) the wine obtained from a harvest of grapes, esp in an outstandingly good year, referred to by the year involved, the district, or the vineyard
2. (Brewing) the harvest from which such a wine is obtained
3. (Agriculture) the harvest from which such a wine is obtained
4. (Brewing)
a. the harvesting of wine grapes
b. the season of harvesting these grapes or for making wine
5. (Agriculture)
a. the harvesting of wine grapes
b. the season of harvesting these grapes or for making wine
6. a time of origin: a car of Edwardian vintage.
7. informal a group of people or objects of the same period: a fashion of last season's vintage.
adj
8. (Brewing) (of wine) of an outstandingly good year
9. representative of the best and most typical: vintage Shakespeare.
10. of lasting interest and importance; venerable; classic: vintage films.
11. old-fashioned; dated
vb
12. (Brewing) (tr) to gather (grapes) or make (wine)
13. (Agriculture) (tr) to gather (grapes) or make (wine)
[C15: from Old French vendage (influenced by vintener vintner), from Latin vindēmia, from vīnum wine, grape + dēmere to take away (from dē- away + emere to take)]
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vin•tage
(ˈvɪn tɪdʒ)n.
1. the wine from a particular harvest or crop.
2. the annual produce of a grape harvest, esp. with reference to the wine obtained.
3. an exceptionally fine wine from the crop of a good year.
4. the act or season of gathering grapes or of making wine.
5. the output of a particular time; a collection of things manufactured or in use at the same time: a car of 1917 vintage.
adj. 6. being of a specified vintage: vintage wine.
7. representing the high quality of a past time; classic: vintage movies.
8. of, imitating, or being a style or fashion of the past; retro: vintage clothing.
9. being the best of its kind; choice: vintage Shakespeare.
10. old-fashioned or obsolete.
[1400–50; alter. of vindage, vendage « Latin vīndēmia grape-gathering =vīn(um) grape, wine + dēm(ere) to take from (see redeem) + -ia -y3]
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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.
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vintage
Past participle: vintaged
Gerund: vintaging
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vintage
noun
1. (always used of wines) harvest, year, crop, yield This wine is from one of the best vintages of the decade.
2. era, period, origin, sort, type, generation, stamp, epoch, ilk, time of origin a Jeep of World War Two vintage
adjective
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
vintage
nounInformal. A period of origin:
year.
2. Of a style or method formerly in vogue:
antiquated, antique, archaic, bygone, dated, dowdy, fusty, old, old-fashioned, old-time, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, passé.
3. Serving to identify or set apart an individual or group:
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vintage
[ˈvɪntɪdʒ]A. N (= season, harvest) → vendimia f; (= year) → cosecha f, añada f
the 1970 vintage → la cosecha de 1970
it will be a good vintage → la cosecha será buena
it was a vintage performance → fue una actuación memorable
this film is vintage Chaplin → ésta es una película clásica de Chaplin, esta película es un clásico de Chaplin
it has been a vintage year for plays → ha sido un año destacado en lo que a teatro se refiere
the 1970 vintage → la cosecha de 1970
it will be a good vintage → la cosecha será buena
it was a vintage performance → fue una actuación memorable
this film is vintage Chaplin → ésta es una película clásica de Chaplin, esta película es un clásico de Chaplin
it has been a vintage year for plays → ha sido un año destacado en lo que a teatro se refiere
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vintage
(ˈvintidʒ) noun (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).cosecha; añada
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