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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 collars
  2. wine cooler
  3. wine coolers
  4. wine cooper
  5. wine coopers
  6. wine cup
  7. wine cups
  8. wine diamond
  9. wine flies
  10. wine flight
  11. wine flights

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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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