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vine

/ˈvaɪ̯n/

vine noun: any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.

Noun (1)

vine (plural vines)

  1. Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
    Synonyms:
    climber
  2. Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
  3. A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
    • This was a full-on jungle, full of all kinds of creepy things - snakes, spiders. They expected Tarzan to come swinging by on a vine.1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer
    • I could have easily been in the Congo. Trees, Tarzan-like vines, creepy crawlies, spiders and more spiders.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 189
  4. (UK, especially) A climbing plant that produces grapes.
    • They picked the grapes off the vine.
    • Irám indeed is gone with all its Rose,
      And Jamshýd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows;
      But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields,
      And still a Garden by the Water blows.1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2
    Synonyms:
    grapevine, winetree
  5. Any plant of the genus Vitis.

Proper noun capitalized: Vine

Vine

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Fountain County, Indiana, United States.

Noun (2) capitalized: Vine

Vine (plural Vines)

  1. (Internet) A looping video clip of a few seconds in duration, frequently used on social media.
    • Vine has become a weird tiny art form with its own conventions and trends and a robust community, none of which you will probably be able to keep up with if you aren't already, but at least we can appreciate the occasional Buzzfeed^([sic]) roundup of Vines.2015 February 17, Jess Zimmerman, The Guardian

vine meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

vine in Hindi

any similar climbing or trailing plant
लता latā, बेल bel
any plant of the genus Vitis
लता latā

vine in Tamil

கொடி

vine in Urdu

vine, vineyard
داکھ dākh

vine in Bengali

লতা, দ্রাক্ষালতা
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vine in Telugu
లత lata, తీగ tīga
vine in Malayalam
വള്ളിച്ചെടി vaḷḷicceṭi, ആരോഹി ārōhi
vine in Kannada
ಬಳ್ಳಿ, ಹಂಬು, ಲತೆ, ದ್ರಾಕ್ಷಿಯ ಬಳ್ಳಿ
vine in Gujarati
વેલો
vine in Odia
ଦ୍ରାକ୍ଷାଲତା
vine in Assamese
লতা lota
vine in Pashto
مېلوه melawa
vine in Persian
بالارونده bâlâravande, رز raz, انگور angur
vine in Thai
เถา tǎo, ไม้เถา, เถาวัลย์ tǎo-wan
vine in Vietnamese
dây leo

Examples of vine in a sentence

  • The vine overran its trellis; the field is overrun with weeds.
  • Vines wind round a pole. The river winds through the plain.
  • A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.

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Synonyms of vine

Forms of vine

pluralvines
pluralVines

Plural of vine: vines

Origin of vine

From Middle English vyne, from Anglo-Norman vigne, from Vulgar Latin vīnia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”), from *weh₁y- (“to twist, wrap”). Doublet of wine.

From the American short-form video hosting service Vine, active from 2012 to 2016, possibly from vine.

Words formed from vine

Phrases with vine

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Questions about vine

What does vine mean?
Vine means any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
What is vine in Hindi?
Vine in Hindi is लता (latā), बेल (bel). See Vine meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is vine?
Vine can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce vine?
Vine is pronounced /ˈvaɪ̯n/.
What is the plural of vine?
The plural of vine is vines.

Words near vine in the dictionary

  1. Vindman
  2. vindoline
  3. vindolines
  4. vindresser
  5. vindressers
  6. vine
  7. vine and fig-tree
  8. Vine boom
  9. Vine booms
  10. Vine Hill
  11. vine leaf

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vine (page history and authors); Vine (page history and authors); vine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); داکھ (Urdu) (page history and authors); Vine (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vine (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vine (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vine (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); লতা (Assamese) (page history and authors); مېلوه (Pashto) (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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