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  1. noun A beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various kinds of grapes, usually containing from 10 to 15 percent alcohol by volume.
  2. noun A beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various other fruits or plants.
  3. noun Something that intoxicates or exhilarates.
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  • Of wines and beer they drink at dinner a most extraordinary mixture, but as the wine is all the gift of Emperors and merchant princes it is good. —  The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2
  • "Semi-sweet to sweet, this wine is also suitable for mass production." —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • When a wine is a Vintage Wine, it is actually describing a wine that was made from grapes that were grown in the same year. —  Random feeds from Syndic8.com
  • The other wine is the 2003 Gratticaia from Agircole Vallone, a 100 percent Negroamaro. —  The New Wine Consumer: Wine Brands
  • With the light tannins and great acidity this wine is a good food pairing for any meat dish, even those on the lighter side. —  Vinography: A Wine Blog
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beer ·  brandy ·  food ·  milk ·  drink ·  fruit ·  bread ·  liquor ·  oil ·  fish ·  tobacco ·  rice

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wine:   wines ·  wined

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  1. Middle English, from Old English wīn, from Latin vīnum.

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  1. from Middle English win, wyn, from Anglo-Saxon wīn = Old Saxon OFries. wīn = Dutch wijn = Middle Low German wīn = Low German wien = Old High German Middle High German win, German wein, wine, = Icelandic vīn = Swedish Danish vin = Gothic (Moesogothic) wein = Italian Spanish vino = Portuguese vinho = French vin = Slav. Old Bulgarian Servian vino = Bohemian vino = Polish wino = Russian vino = Old Irish fīn, Irish Gaelic fion, from Latin vīnum, wine, collectively grapes, = Greek οῑ)νος, wine, allied to οἴνη, the vine; cf. Latin vitis, the vine, vinea, vine, etc. From the L. vinum are also ult. English vine, vignette, vinous, vinegar, vintage, vintner, etc.
  2. from wine, n.
 

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