wine

Meanings

Noun

• An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of grapes.
• An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine".
• A serving of wine.
• A dark purplish red colour; the colour of red wine.
• Wind.

Verb

• To entertain with wine.
• To drink wine.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• Adam's wine
• barley wine
• blush wine
• dandelion wine
• dessert wine
• fortified wine
• ginger wine
• house wine
• ice wine
• jug wine
• May wine
• palm wine
• pop wine
• red wine
• rosé wine
• sparkling wine
• straw wine
• table wine
• white wine
• yellow wine

Origin

• From Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom ("wine"). vine.
• A variant of wind with simplification of the final consonant cluster; for the vowel quality, compare find, mind, rind.