champagne

Meanings

Noun

• A sparkling white wine made from a blend of grapes, especially Chardonnay and pinot, produced in Champagne, France, by the méthode champenoise.
• Any sparkling wine made by the méthode champenoise.
• Any sparkling white wine.
• A glass of champagne.
• A very pale brownish-gold colour, similar to that of champagne.

Adjective

• Of a very pale brownish-gold colour, similar to that of champagne.

Verb

• To ply or treat with champagne.
• To drink champagne.

Related

Similar words

• bubbly, champ, champers, fizz , shampoo , sham, shammy

Narrower meaning words

• Bolly, champansky

Origin

• Borrowed from French champagne ("sparkling wine from the Champagne region"), from Champagne, from Late Latin campānia (in full Campānia Rēmēnsis), from campāneus, from Latin campus ("level ground; field, plain"), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- ("to bend, curve"). The English word is a campagna and campaign.