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vint

/vɪnt/

vint verb: to make wine from fruit.

Verb

vint (third-person singular simple present vints, present participle vinting, simple past and past participle vinted)

  1. (transitive) To make wine from fruit.

Noun

vint (uncountable)

  1. A Russian card game similar to bridge and whist.
    Synonyms:
    Russian whist

Proper noun capitalized: Vint

Vint (plural Vints)

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of vint

Forms of vint

Verb
third-person singular presentvints
present participlevinting
past participlevinted
pastvinted
Proper noun
pluralVints

Origin of vint

Probably a back-formation from vintage, interpreted as vint + -age. Ultimately from Latin vinum (“wine”).

Borrowed from Russian винт (vint, “a screw”).

Questions about vint

What does vint mean?
Vint means to make wine from fruit.
What part of speech is vint?
Vint can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce vint?
Vint is pronounced /vɪnt/.
What is the past tense of vint?
The past tense of vint is vinted.

Words near vint in the dictionary

  1. vins jaunes
  2. vins ordinaires
  3. Vinsome
  4. Vinson
  5. Vinson Massif
  6. vint
  7. vinta
  8. vintafolide
  9. vintage
  10. vintage car
  11. vintage cars

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