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white wine

white wine noun: light-colored wine (usually yellow with a hint of green but not pink).

white wine: light-colored wine (usually yellow with a hint of green but not pink)
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Noun

white wine (countable and uncountable, plural white wines)

  1. Light-colored wine (usually yellow with a hint of green but not pink).
    • In contrast to making red wine, the juice for white wine is fermented without the skins and seeds.2005, Barbara Nowak, Beverly Wichman, The Everything Wine Book
  2. (obsolete, slang) Gin.
    • Jack Randall then impatient rose, / And said, ‘Tom's speech were just as fine / If he would call that first of goes / By that genteeler name—white wine.'1820, Thomas Moore, W. Simpkin, R. Marshall, Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius

white wine meaning in Tagalog, Arabic and Malay

white wine in Tagalog

light coloured wine
puting bino, bino-blangko

white wine in Arabic

light coloured wine
نَبِيذ أَبْيَض nabīḏ ʔabyaḍ, خَمْر أَبْيَض ḵamr ʔabyaḍ

white wine in Malay

light coloured wine
wain putih

Forms of white wine

pluralwhite wines

Origin of white wine

From Middle English white wyn, whit win.

Questions about white wine

What does white wine mean?
White wine means light-colored wine (usually yellow with a hint of green but not pink).
What is white wine in Tagalog?
White wine in Tagalog is puting bino, bino-blangko. See White wine meaning in Tagalog.
What part of speech is white wine?
White wine is a noun.
What is the plural of white wine?
The plural of white wine is white wines.

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