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wine-cup

wine-cup is the alternative spelling of winecup.

Meaning of winecup

Noun

winecup (plural winecups)

  1. A vessel from which wine is drunk.
  2. (figuratively) The consumption of alcohol; drinking; alcohol as a drink.
    • These are the proudest trophies, the most splendid fruits of the victories of the wine-cup.1856, Permanent Temperance Documents, New York: American Temperance Society, page 61
  3. A poppy mallow (Callirhoe digitata).

Forms of wine-cup

pluralwine-cups

Questions about wine-cup

What is wine-cup the alternative spelling of?
Wine-cup is the alternative spelling of winecup.

Words near wine-cup in the dictionary

  1. wine-bottleful
  2. wine-bottlefuls
  3. wine-bottles
  4. wine-colored
  5. wine-coloured
  6. wine-cup
  7. wine-cups
  8. wine-dark
  9. wine-glass
  10. wine-glasses
  11. wine-growing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wine-cup (page history and authors); winecup (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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