Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A wine bottle holding 4/5 of a gallon (3.03 liters).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A large bowl or goblet, generally of metal.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon)
- n. (Old Testament) first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin (10th century BC)
Etymologies
- After Jeroboam I (died c. 901 B.C.), king of northern Israel. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The prize is a collection of PG Wodehouse novels, a jeroboam of champagne and the honour of naming a Gloucester Spot pig.”
The Guardian: Sam Leith and India Knight in running for Wodehouse book prize
“McEwan received the hog – and a jeroboam of champagne – as a prize for comic writing in his latest novel, "Solar.”
The Huffington Post: Hay Festival In UK Brings 'Mongrel Mix' Of Authors And Intellectuals
“The jeroboam meant one kept on pouring from an open vessel.”
“He had reached for the jeroboam, but jerked his hand away.”
“A friend who attended one of Fry and Laurie's parties in the north London home they shared remembers champagne poured from a jeroboam, while the hosts exchanged bons mots with Kate Bush.”
The Guardian: Stephen Fry: The know-all who is everybody's friend
“He brought with him from New York a crock of mustard, a jeroboam of champagne, cocktail napkins with a picture of a plane flying over a building on them, twenty egret feathers “You cannot get them anymore—strictly illegal,” Tucker whispered to me, and, under his black cowboy hat with the rhinestone-studded chin strap, a toy frog that hopped when wound.”
“(You can go higher, too: Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild goes for around $220, while a jeroboam -- a six-liter bottle -- of Taittinger champagne is $600 plus.)”
“The jeroboam of 1976 Bollinger La Grande Année we drank for our millennium celebration was the best Champagne we've ever had.”
The Wall Street Journal: Rails, Romance and Really Good Wine
“Between these two extremes is a growing variety of delicious wines sold in large-format bottles by wineries world-wide, and available at a range of affordable price levels, from a €35 magnum of Jordan Cabernet Sauvignon 2001 from Stellenbosch, South Africa, to a €190 jeroboam (or three-liter) bottle of Domaine Pegau Châteauneuf du Pape 2004.”
The Wall Street Journal: When a Double Magnum is Just the Right Bottle
“Years ago, we imagine someone told some friends that it would be infanticide to open their prized jeroboam, the equivalent of four regular-size bottles.”
The Wall Street Journal: Corkscrews Up! Time to Open That Bottle
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jeroboam’.
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phrontistery - j
from phrontistery.info
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Postscripture ✞
Terms associated with the Christianity, The Bible, etc. I have a related, but more narrow list called Imbible Code.
A related list is Words Associated With Jesus.apostole, pharaoh, sodom, babel, sabbath, baptize, cherub, elohim, lapsarian, crucifixion, nephilim, hosanna and 195 more...
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gre2
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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juv3nal's Words
ligature, hermeneutic, caduceus, prelapsarian, apophenia, pataphor, lipogram, epinephrine, ludic, samizdat, oulipo, oulipopo and 194 more...
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work these into conversation
Challenge!
legerdemain, polysemic, rupestrian, callipygian, oscitancy, numen, lucubration, asperity, amalgam, apposite, wastrel, eleemosynary and 208 more...
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know-it-all
eunuch, couvade, ecclesiastes, enigma, inevitable, crucible, genteel, bedlam, baculum, scapulimancy, atrophy, smut and 170 more...
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My Revised GRE Preparation List
Words from the new GRE : This list consists mostly of words from the book Magoosh-GRE-vocab-ebook, which is one of the best vocab materials available, especially if you have started preparing one ...
alacrity, prosaic, veracity, paucity, contrite, trite, maintain, laconic, pugnacious, disparate, egregious, innocuous and 533 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Words I Learned on FreeRice.com
A place for me to keep all these weird words, whether I guessed them correctly or not.
pennoncel, serval, tautological, redact, ganef, candent, shaitan, bifid, osteal, ensiform, helve, ecdysis and 100 more...
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Bottle Collection
I have a sizable collection of fiddle- and banjo-shaped bottles. Some quite old, others not so old.
standard, saltmouth, rehoboam, pill bottle, tregnum, methuselah, thermos, Rehoboam, Marie Jeanne, surahi, junk-bottle, longneck and 95 more...
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bottled up
champagne/wine bottle sizes
melchizedek, primat, sovereign, soloman, melchior, nebuchadnezzar, balthazar, salamanazar, methuselah, imperial, rehoboam, jeroboam and 6 more...
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recent discoveries
weird, wonderful new additions to my lexicon.
hyperopia, cunctator, pilosity, bescumber, virago, gimcrack, roborant, besprinkle, crack spread, gewgaw, flagitious, ancillary and 37 more...
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Eine kleine Wörterwunderkammer
Verbal curios, because of their meaning, their shape, or their history.
phlogiston, tisane, ptisan, phthisis, fimbulwinter, zarf, mono no aware, woodwose, psychopomp, jabot, chatelaine, tappen and 82 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for jeroboam.
rolig Thanks, jmp! Very interesting. Aren't Balthazar and Melchior the traditional names of the three Magi? I wonder why Caspar is missing? Jul 20, 2008
johnmperry The reason why biblical names were chosen for these larger sizes is unknown. The term Jeroboam appears to have been used in Bordeaux from around 1725. Adopted in Champagne, the other bottles were probably named simply by analogy with the first in the series. Jeroboam was the founder and first king of the kingdom of Israel at the beginning of the first millennium before Christ. It is curious to note that Eustache Deschamps lists Jeroboam, Roboan (Roboam or Rehoboam) and Balthazar in his Balade MCCXLIX. As for the explanation of why Jeroboam was chosen by the wine-makers of Bordeaux, perhaps the answer lies in the Bible, in which Jeroboam is described as a man of great value; a jeroboam of Château Latour is undoubtedly a bottle of great value!- UNION of CHAMPAGNE HOUSES
Biblical champagne bottle sizes:
Jeroboam (Founder and first king of Israel, 931-910 BC)
Rehoboam, son of Solomon (King of Judah, 922-908 BC)
Methuselah (Biblical patriarch who lived to the age of 969)
Salmanazar (King of Assyria, 859-824 BC)
Balthazar (Regent of Babylon, son of Nabonide, 539BC)
Nebuchadnezzar (King of Babylon, 605-562 BC).
Other sizes:
Melchior
Solomon
Primat
Melchizedek Jul 20, 2008
rolig JMP, any idea how this name of a Biblical king came to be associated with a big bottle of vino? Jul 20, 2008
johnmperry A large champagne bottle, 4 - 6 regular bottles or 3 - 4½ litres (140 - 210 oz = 7 - 10½ imperial pints, 8¾ - 13-and-a-bit US pints) Jul 20, 2008
chained_bear I think I've seen this word before. It brought back old, old memories of religion class... like third-grade religion class... May 15, 2008