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grenache

grenache noun: a specific, widely-planted variety of red wine grape, or a wine made from such grapes.

grenache: a specific, widely-planted variety of red wine grape, or a wine made from such grapes
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Noun (1)

grenache (countable and uncountable, plural grenaches)

  1. A specific, widely-planted variety of red wine grape, or a wine made from such grapes.
    • A five-course pork dinner paired with grenache wines from several countries will be held on Monday […].2007 September 26, Florence Fabricant, “Calendar”, in New York Times

Noun (2) capitalized: Grenache

Grenache (countable and uncountable, plural Grenaches)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of grenache.

Forms of grenache

pluralgrenaches
alternative formGrenache
pluralGrenaches

Origin of grenache

From French grenache, from Italian vernaccia, from Vernazza, a town in Italy. Cognate to Catalan garnatxa, Spanish garnacha, Portuguese garnacha.

Questions about grenache

What does grenache mean?
Grenache means a specific, widely-planted variety of red wine grape, or a wine made from such grapes.
What part of speech is grenache?
Grenache is a noun.
What is the plural of grenache?
The plural of grenache is grenaches.

Words near grenache in the dictionary

  1. gremoulatas
  2. grems
  3. gren
  4. Gren.
  5. Grenaa
  6. grenache
  7. grenaches
  8. Grenada
  9. Grenada County
  10. Grenadan
  11. Grenadans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: grenache (page history and authors); Grenache (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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