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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various sweet white grapes used for making wine or raisins.
  2. n. Muscatel wine.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A grape having a strong odor or flavor as of musk. There are several varieties of grape, mostly white, which come within this category.
  2. n. Wine made from muscat-grapes, or of similar character to that so made, usually strong and more or less sweet. Also called muscadel.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A white grape variety; used as table grapes and for making raisins and sweet wine
  2. n. The muscatel wine made from these grapes

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes
  2. n. wine from muscat grapes
  3. n. a port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman
  4. n. sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine

Etymologies

  1. French, from Old French, from Old Provençal *muscat, from musc, musk, from Late Latin muscus; see musk.

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