Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A wine merchant.
- n. One who makes wine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who deals in wine, spirits, etc., especially at wholesale, or on a large scale.
Wiktionary
- n. A seller of wine
- n. A manufacturer of wine
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who deals in wine; a wine seller, or wine merchant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who sells wine
- n. someone who makes wine
Etymologies
- Middle English vineter, from Old French vinetier, from Medieval Latin vīnētārius, from Latin vīnētum, vineyard, from vīnum, wine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“One, the vintner is catering to the mass crowd, and the mass crowd generally wants sweeter (so-called “less complex”) stuff.”
Fred Franzia and American wine under $10 | Dr Vino's wine blog
“The grower-vintner is losing money on the low end and hoping to make it back in other price sectors.”
Why so few tasty American wines under $12? Wine importer Bobby Kacher | Dr Vino's wine blog
“Two, economies of scale dictate that the vintner is going to mix it.”
Fred Franzia and American wine under $10 | Dr Vino's wine blog
“The word vintner caused him to give vent to an ejaculation of surprise.”
“vintner" and "peddler" of his objurgations, and meekly whispers into his ear with the air of a conspirator reporting a plot to his chief.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
“Currently, many of New Jersey's small wineries produce too little wine for a wholesale distribution deal, which typically requires a vintner make 125,000 gallons a year, said John Hawkins, a co-owner of Unionville Vineyards.”
The Wall Street Journal: Years of Growth at Risk for N.J. Wine
“On almost every Thursday for the past 18 years, Mr. Backen has met with Napa Valley vintner Bill Harlan, known for his close attention to detail and for producing some of the world's most sought-after wines.”
“An invited celebrity chef—this year's included Wolfgang Puck and Nancy Silverton—cooks a meal paired with wines from a vintner associated with the Festival.”
“Back in the late '80s, the French government was planning to run train tracks for the high-speed TGV right through the middle of the historic vineyards of Vouvray, and Gaston Huet, as mayor of the town and its most important vintner, was leading the fight against the plan.”
The Wall Street Journal: Singing of France's Unsung Chenin Blanc
“Francesca Bortolotto Possati Venice Venetian hotelier, vintner and philanthropist Francesca Bortolotto Possati , a third generation owner of the Bauer hotel, has just opened her newest property, the Villa F., a luxuriously restored 16th-century villa on the Giudecca.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vintner’.
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Dean Koontz Life Expectancy
Words I'm learning or investigating that I found by reading Life Expectancy (not all words are in the book).
chutzpah, luminous, torchieres, dunderheaded, inane, lummox, fox-trot, rumba, cha-cha, tango, swing, flub and 37 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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deidionysus's list
Words, words, words!
cartesian, shavian, dithyramb, dreadnaught, lea, adamantine, titanomachy, theomachy, aethereal, ambrosia, ambrosial, aether and 183 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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foodies' wordies
ambrosial, bonne bouche, mignardise, larder, vintner, piehole, bon vivant, bon viveur, soupçon
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A Myriad of Irii
Iris varieties.
abbondanza, abiqua falls, about town, above the clouds, acadian miss, acapulco gold, act of kindness, adoregon, aegean wind, afternoon in rio, aggressively forward, agua fresca and 721 more...
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Doctor Faustus
Various words from the play by Christopher Marlowe.
Good Angel, Bad Angel, pride, covetousness, envy, wrath, gluttony, sloth, lechery, vintner, horse-courser, Helen of Troy and 148 more...
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 414 more...
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Trades Featured in R. Campbell's The ...
Hey kids! What do YOU want to be when you grow up?!
Reprint edition, Devon: Latimer Trend & Co., Ltd., 1969. Full original citation (you'd better grab a drink and sit down) is:
...woollen draper, wood monger, wood cutter, wine cooper, woolsted man, wool card maker, wool comber, wool stapler, wire drawer, whalebone-man, whip maker, weaver and 343 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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New words, not to be confused with th...
maladroit, aphasia, delphinium, bromide, greenhorn, just deserts, loth, supplanted, steeplechase, steeple, annex, vestments and 236 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, V
vespertine, vacuous, versipellous, valve, vatic, virogene, vigneron, vincular, verticil, vespiary, vermiculite, velamen and 128 more...
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OK
One word from each of Omar Khayyam's rubaiyat as translated by Edward FitzGerald (1st edition)
awake, liquor, tavern, suspire, ruby, incarnadine, cup, blossom, forgot, herbage, verse, drum and 63 more...
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