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wine

/ˈwaɪ̯n/

wine noun: an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.

wine: an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%
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Noun (1)

wine (countable and uncountable, plural wines)

  1. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
    • Wine is usually stronger than beer.
    • "Wine improves with age but I improve with wine," she slurred as she slid gracefully beneath the table.
  2. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV.
    • ...dandelion wine, rice wine, plum wine...
  3. (countable) A serving of wine.
    • I'd like three beers and two wines, please. My friend will have the same.
  4. (uncountable) The color of red wine, a deep reddish purple.

Verb (1)

wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)

  1. (transitive) To entertain (someone) with wine.
    • Neither Major Wadhams nor I is accustomed to being wined and dined by perfect strangers who do not even present themselves, but leave servants to do the honors, consequently to both of us our present situation smacks of romance and adventure;1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 159
  2. (intransitive) To drink wine.
    • I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing.1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker

Noun (2)

wine (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Wind.
    • Vor voices rawze upon tha wine1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century
    • Aw how sholl I tell o’m—vor âll pirty maidens / When I pass’d ’em look’d back—ther smill rawze on tha wine.1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire

Verb (2)

wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)

  1. (intransitive) To perform a Jamaican dance, such as the Dutty Wine.
    • Carolina come wine 'pon me / Oh watch how di gyal groove1993, Shaggy, “Oh Carolina”
    • Even when there are positive comments, as in the responses to “white boy wines to dancehall,” the origin of the white boy's ability to dance is attributed to skills derived from others: […].2010, Andoni Alonso, Pedro Oiarzabal, editors, Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics, and Community, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Wine

Wine (plural Wines)

  1. A surname.
  2. (abbreviation, acronym, dated) Acronym of Windows Emulator.
  3. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Wine is not an emulator.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: WINE

WINE

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Wine.

wine meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

wine in Hindi

alcoholic beverage made from grapes — see also port wine, chianti
सुरा surā, मद्य madya, शराब śarāb, मदिरा madirā

wine in Tamil

alcoholic beverage made from grapes — see also port wine, chianti
வைன் vaiṉ

wine in Marathi

alcoholic beverage made from grapes — see also port wine, chianti
ग्रेप वाईन grep vāīn

wine in Urdu

alcoholic beverage made from grapes — see also port wine, chianti
شَراب śarāb, بادَہ bāda, مَے mai
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wine in Bengali
মদ mod, শরাব śôrab
wine in Telugu
ద్రాక్ష సారాయి drākṣa sārāyi, ద్రాక్షాసవం drākṣāsavaṁ, సారాయి sārāyi
wine in Malayalam
വീഞ്ഞ് vīññŭ
wine in Kannada
ವೈನ್ vain
wine in Punjabi
ਸ਼ਰਾਬ śarāb
wine in Gujarati
વાઇન vāina
wine in Odia
ମଦ mada
wine in Sanskrit
सुरा surā, मदिरा madirā
wine in Sinhala
වයින් wayin
wine in Assamese
সুৰা xura
wine in Nepali
वाइन
wine in Pashto
می may, شراب šarāb
wine in Tagalog
alak, bino
wine in Arabic
نَبِيذ nabīḏ, خَمْر ḵamr, شَرَاب šarāb, نبيت nibīt
wine in Malay
wain, syarab
wine in Indonesian
anggur, arak
wine in Persian
شَراب šarâb, مِی mey, بادِه bâde
wine in Thai
เหล้าองุ่น lâo-à-ngûn, ไวน์ waai
wine in Vietnamese
rượu vàng, rượu vang
wine in Myanmar
ဝိုင် wuing

Examples of wine in a sentence

  • In Europe then [1925] we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156:
  • Admirers of Israel’s kosher and nonkosher wines need the 2007 edition of “Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines” (Toby Press, $19.95).2007 January 14, Howard G. Goldberg, “A Tour of Israel, Bottle by Bottle”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
  • The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates promoted wine for various purposes, including reducing fevers and dressing wounds.2022 January 22, Jonathan Reiner, “If you think that glass of wine is good for you, it’s time to reconsider”, in CNN:

All 40 example sentences with wine

Synonyms of wine

Forms of wine

Noun
pluralwines
Verb
third-person singular presentwines
present participlewining
past participlewined
pastwined
Proper noun
pluralWines
alternative formWINE

Plural of wine: wines

Origin of wine

From Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną, either directly or via Latin vīnum (from Proto-Italic *wīnom) from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“wine”). Doublet of vine and vino. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wien, West Frisian wyn, Dutch wijn, German Wein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vin, Faroese and Icelandic vín.

A variant of wind with simplification of the final consonant cluster; for the vowel quality, compare find, mind, rind. The same variation of the root wind- → win- is also found in dialectal North Germanic: vind- → vin-. Also compare English whine, Swedish vina.

From Jamaican Creole [Term?], related to wind (verb).

Words formed from wine

Phrases with wine

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Words that rhyme with wine

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Questions about wine

What does wine mean?
Wine means an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
What is wine in Hindi?
Wine in Hindi is सुरा (surā), मद्य (madya), शराब (śarāb). See Wine meaning in Hindi.
How do you use wine in a sentence?
In Europe then [1925] we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
What part of speech is wine?
Wine can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce wine?
Wine is pronounced /ˈwaɪ̯n/.
What is the plural of wine?
The plural of wine is wines.

Words near wine in the dictionary

  1. windworn
  2. windy
  3. Windy City
  4. windy pasties
  5. windy pasty
  6. wine
  7. wine acid
  8. wine and dine
  9. wine aunt
  10. wine aunts
  11. wine ball

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wine (page history and authors); Wine (page history and authors); WINE (page history and authors); wine (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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