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Rennish

Rennish is the obsolete spelling of Rhenish.

Meaning of Rhenish

Adjective

Rhenish (comparative more Rhenish, superlative most Rhenish)

  1. Pertaining to wine produced in the Rhine region.
    • He tooke his rouſe with ſtopes of Rhenniſh wine / So kindly yeſternight to Bruno's health, / That all this day the ſluggard kéepes his bed.1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Mar[lowe], The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. […], London: […] Iohn Wright, […], published 1616 (1631 reprint), →OCLC, signature...
  2. Pertaining to the Rhine river or region.

See all 4 meanings of Rhenish

Forms of Rennish

comparativemore Rennish
superlativemost Rennish

Origin of Rennish

See Rhenish. Likely influenced by Middle English Rine.

Questions about Rennish

What is Rennish the obsolete spelling of?
Rennish is the obsolete spelling of Rhenish.

Words near Rennish in the dictionary

  1. Renninger
  2. Renningers
  3. Rennington
  4. renninogen
  5. rennins
  6. Rennish
  7. Renno
  8. Rennoldson
  9. Rennos
  10. Renns
  11. renny

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Rennish (page history and authors); Rhenish (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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