Definitions for wine

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Spelling: [wahyn]

IPA: /waɪn/

Wine is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in wine (einw).

Definitions for wine

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:
3. the juice, fermented or unfermented, of various other fruits or plants, used as a beverage, sauce, etc.:
4. a dark reddish color, as of red wines.
5. Pharmacology. 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. Obsolete. intoxication due to the drinking of wine.

Idioms

1. new wine in old bottles, something new placed in or superimposed on an old or existing form, system, etc. Matt. 9:17.
2. wine and dine, to entertain lavishly:

adjective

1. dark red in color.

verb (used with object)

1. to supply with wine:

verb (used without object)

1. to drink wine.

Origin of wine

before 900; Middle English (noun), Old English wīn (cognate with Dutch wijn, German Wein, Old Norse vīn, Gothic wein) ≪ Latin vīnum (cognate with Greek oînos)

Examples for wine

The possibilities seem endless: Who needs a trip to the liquor store when the toddler can turn water into wine, amirite?

You meant to chase every glass of wine with a pitcher of H2O, but the holiday cheer somehow steered you off course.

"I will neither drink your wine nor sit at your table," returned the other.

“Enjoying the bubbles is as important as enjoying the wine,” Goldston says.

The wine cellar—one of the best in the world—survived World War II and is guarded around the clock.

I filled my life to the very brim with pleasure, as one might fill a cup to the very brim with wine.

I guess we know how Bacchus kept his title as the god of wine and intoxication.

It is needless to say that Sack is the wine preferred by him.

But now with every sip of wine the temptation came stronger and stronger.

Three jacks of the wine of the country, Michel—for the air bites shrewdly.