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alicant

/ˌælɪˈkænt/

alicant noun: a kind of wine said to have been made near Alicante in Spain.

Noun

alicant (countable and uncountable, plural alicants)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of wine said to have been made near Alicante in Spain.
    • he used nothing but butter'd beer, coloured with Alligant, for all kinds of maladies1626 February 1 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey...
    • All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […], New York, 2001, p.223

Proper noun capitalized: Alicant

Alicant

  1. (obsolete) Obsolete form of Alicante: a city and province of Valencia, Spain.

Forms of alicant

pluralalicants
alternative formalligant

Questions about alicant

What does alicant mean?
Alicant means a kind of wine said to have been made near Alicante in Spain.
What part of speech is alicant?
Alicant can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce alicant?
Alicant is pronounced /ˌælɪˈkænt/.
What is the plural of alicant?
The plural of alicant is alicants.

Words near alicant in the dictionary

  1. alibility
  2. alibis
  3. alible
  4. Alic
  5. alicaforsen
  6. alicant
  7. Alicante
  8. alicants
  9. Alice
  10. Alice B. Toklas brownie
  11. Alice B. Toklas brownies

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