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Rhinish

Rhinish is the alternative form 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 Rhinish

comparativemore Rhinish
superlativemost Rhinish

Origin of Rhinish

From Rhine + -ish.

Questions about Rhinish

What is Rhinish the alternative form of?
Rhinish is the alternative form of Rhenish.

Words near Rhinish in the dictionary

  1. rhingylls
  2. rhinic
  3. rhinid
  4. rhinids
  5. rhinion
  6. Rhinish
  7. rhinitides
  8. rhinitis
  9. rhinitis medicamentosa
  10. rhinitis sicca
  11. rhino

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Rhinish (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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