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vin·tage

(vĭn′tĭj)

1. The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.

2. Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.

3. The year or place in which a wine is bottled.

a. The harvesting of a grape crop.

b. The initial stages of winemaking.

5. Informal

a. A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.

b. A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage.

c. Length of existence; age.

adj.

1. Of or relating to a vintage.

2. Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.

3. Old or outmoded.

a. Of the best: played songs that were vintage Cole Porter.

b. Of the most distinctive: "Fatalism has coexisted with vintage American overconfidence" (Thomas Oliphant).

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, alteration (influenced by viniter, vintner) of Old French vendange, from Latin vīndēmia : vīnum, grapes + dēmere, to take off (dē, de- + emere, to obtain; see em- in Indo-European roots).]

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vintage

(ˈvɪntɪdʒ)

1. (Brewing) the wine obtained from a harvest of grapes, esp in an outstandingly good year, referred to by the year involved, the district, or the vineyard

2. (Brewing) the harvest from which such a wine is obtained

3. (Agriculture) the harvest from which such a wine is obtained

4. (Brewing)

a. the harvesting of wine grapes

b. the season of harvesting these grapes or for making wine

5. (Agriculture)

a. the harvesting of wine grapes

b. the season of harvesting these grapes or for making wine

6. a time of origin: a car of Edwardian vintage.

7. informal a group of people or objects of the same period: a fashion of last season's vintage.

adj

8. (Brewing) (of wine) of an outstandingly good year

9. representative of the best and most typical: vintage Shakespeare.

10. of lasting interest and importance; venerable; classic: vintage films.

11. old-fashioned; dated

12. (Brewing) (tr) to gather (grapes) or make (wine)

13. (Agriculture) (tr) to gather (grapes) or make (wine)

[C15: from Old French vendage (influenced by vintener vintner), from Latin vindēmia, from vīnum wine, grape + dēmere to take away (from dē- away + emere to take)]

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vin•tage

(ˈvɪn tɪdʒ)

n.

1. the wine from a particular harvest or crop.

2. the annual produce of a grape harvest, esp. with reference to the wine obtained.

3. an exceptionally fine wine from the crop of a good year.

4. the act or season of gathering grapes or of making wine.

5. the output of a particular time; a collection of things manufactured or in use at the same time: a car of 1917 vintage.

adj.

6. being of a specified vintage: vintage wine.

7. representing the high quality of a past time; classic: vintage movies.

8. of, imitating, or being a style or fashion of the past; retro: vintage clothing.

9. being the best of its kind; choice: vintage Shakespeare.

10. old-fashioned or obsolete.

[1400–50; alter. of vindage, vendage « Latin vīndēmia grape-gathering =vīn(um) grape, wine + dēm(ere) to take from (see redeem) + -ia -y³]

Vintage

wine made from the grape-crop of a certain district in a certain year, 1746.

Example: vintage of divinity, 1607.

vintage

Past participle: vintaged
Gerund: vintaging

Imperative
vintage
vintage

Present
I vintage
you vintage
he/she/it vintages
we vintage
you vintage
they vintage

Preterite
I vintaged
you vintaged
he/she/it vintaged
we vintaged
you vintaged
they vintaged

Present Continuous
I am vintaging
you are vintaging
he/she/it is vintaging
we are vintaging
you are vintaging
they are vintaging

Present Perfect
I have vintaged
you have vintaged
he/she/it has vintaged
we have vintaged
you have vintaged
they have vintaged

Past Continuous
I was vintaging
you were vintaging
he/she/it was vintaging
we were vintaging
you were vintaging
they were vintaging

Past Perfect
I had vintaged
you had vintaged
he/she/it had vintaged
we had vintaged
you had vintaged
they had vintaged

Future
I will vintage
you will vintage
he/she/it will vintage
we will vintage
you will vintage
they will vintage

Future Perfect
I will have vintaged
you will have vintaged
he/she/it will have vintaged
we will have vintaged
you will have vintaged
they will have vintaged

Future Continuous
I will be vintaging
you will be vintaging
he/she/it will be vintaging
we will be vintaging
you will be vintaging
they will be vintaging

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been vintaging
you have been vintaging
he/she/it has been vintaging
we have been vintaging
you have been vintaging
they have been vintaging

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been vintaging
you will have been vintaging
he/she/it will have been vintaging
we will have been vintaging
you will have been vintaging
they will have been vintaging

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been vintaging
you had been vintaging
he/she/it had been vintaging
we had been vintaging
you had been vintaging
they had been vintaging

Conditional
I would vintage
you would vintage
he/she/it would vintage
we would vintage
you would vintage
they would vintage

Past Conditional
I would have vintaged
you would have vintaged
he/she/it would have vintaged
we would have vintaged
you would have vintaged
they would have vintaged

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Noun	1.	vintage - a season's yield of wine from a vineyard vino, wine - fermented juice (of grapes especially)
	2.	vintage - the oldness of wines time of origin oldness - the quality of being old; the opposite of newness

vintage

noun

1. (always used of wines) harvest, year, crop, yield This wine is from one of the best vintages of the decade.

2. era, period, origin, sort, type, generation, stamp, epoch, ilk, time of origin a Jeep of World War Two vintage

adjective

1. (always used of wines) high-quality, best, prime, quality, choice, select, rare, superior Gourmet food and vintage wines are also part of the service.

2. classic, old, veteran, historic, heritage, enduring, antique, timeless, old-world, age-old, ageless This is vintage comedy at its best. vintage, classic and racing cars

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vintage

noun

Informal. A period of origin:

year.

adjective

1. Characterized by enduring excellence, appeal, and importance:

classic, classical.

2. Of a style or method formerly in vogue:

antiquated, antique, archaic, bygone, dated, dowdy, fusty, old, old-fashioned, old-time, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, passé.

3. Serving to identify or set apart an individual or group:

characteristic, distinctive, individual, peculiar, typical.

Translations

موسِم جَنْي العِنَب

ročník

årgang

Jahrgang Weinlese

añada cosecha vendimia

vendange

bortermés: évi bortermésévjárat: vmilyen évjárat

árgangur; ársuppskera

annata vendemmia automobile d'epoca di buona qualit...

vynuogių derliusvynuogių vynas

vīnogu novākšana/raža

årgang god årgang

zbierać zbiór

ročník

bağ bozumukaliteli şarap

特定年份收获季节采得的葡萄酿制的酒葡萄收获期

vintage

[ˈvɪntɪdʒ]

A. N (= season, harvest) → vendimia f; (= year) → cosecha f, añada f
the 1970 vintage → la cosecha de 1970
it will be a good vintage → la cosecha será buena
it was a vintage performance → fue una actuación memorable
this film is vintage Chaplin → ésta es una película clásica de Chaplin, esta película es un clásico de Chaplin
it has been a vintage year for plays → ha sido un año destacado en lo que a teatro se refiere

B. CPD vintage car N → coche m de época, coche m antiguo (fabricado entre 1919 y 1930)
vintage wine N → vino m añejo

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vintage

[ˈvɪntɪdʒ]

n [wine] → millésime m
the 1970 vintage → le millésime 1970

adj

[champagne, port] (= from a particular vintage) → millésimé(e)
non-vintage champagne → champagne non millésimé

[aircraft] → d'époque

(= classic)
This is vintage comedy at its best → C'est le summum des grands classiques de la comédie.vintage car n → voiture f d'époquevintage wine n

(from a particular year) → vin m millésimé
non-vintage wines → vins non millésimés

(= good wine) → grand vin mvintage year n
a vintage year for Burgundy → une bonne année pour le bourgogne

vintage

(= given year) (of wine, fig) → Jahrgang m; (of car) → Baujahr nt

(= wine of particular year) the 1984 vintage → der Jahrgang 1984, der 84er

(= harvesting, season) → Weinlese f, → Weinernte f

adj attr (= old) → uralt; (= high quality) → glänzend, hervorragend; this typewriter is a vintage model → diese Schreibmaschine hat Museumswert; a vintage performance from Humphrey Bogart → eine einmalige künstlerische Leistung Humphrey Bogarts

vintage

vintage car

n → Vorkriegsmodell nt, → Vintage-Car nt

vintage port

n → Vintage-Port m, schwerer Port eines besonderen Jahrgangs

vintage shop

n (US) → Secondhandladen m

vintage wine

n → edler Wein

vintage year

n a vintage for wine → ein besonders gutes Weinjahr; a vintage for Burgundy → ein besonders gutes Jahr für Burgunder; it was a vintage for investment → es war ein ausgezeichnetes Jahr für Investitionen

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vintage

[ˈvɪntɪdʒ] n (harvest) → vendemmia; (season) → periodo della vendemmia; (year) → annata
what vintage is this wine? → di che annata è questo vino?
the 1980 vintage → il vino del 1980

vintage

(ˈvintidʒ) noun

(a wine from) the grape-harvest of a certain (particularly good) year. What vintage is this wine?; a vintage year (= a year in which good wine was produced); vintage port (= port from a vintage year).

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A VINE was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes.

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Nevertheless, he was a fine man; he led a joyous cardinal's life, liked to enliven himself with the royal vintage of Challuau, did not hate Richarde la Garmoise and Thomasse la Saillarde, bestowed alms on pretty girls rather than on old women,--and for all these reasons was very agreeable to the populace of Paris.

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He told them a good many humorous anecdotes, and always forgot the nub, but they were always able to furnish it, for these yarns were of a pretty early vintage, and they had had many a rejuvenating pull at them before.

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A mist cloud hanging at the river's brim, Pink almond flowers along the purple bough, A hut rose-girdled under moon-swept skies, A painted bridge half-seen in shadows dim, -- These are the splendours of the poor, and thou, O wine of spring, the vintage of the wise.

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I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

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They talked to me of the age of the wine and the fame of the vintage; but I thought of an older, a newer, and purer wine, of a more glorious vintage, which they had not got, and could not buy.

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Was not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?

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Manson Mingott's, and with the added satisfaction of knowing they would get hot canvas-back ducks and vintage wines, instead of tepid Veuve Clicquot without a year and warmed-up croquettes from Philadelphia.

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"Why, my little coz," said he, "I have come across to tell you that I live above the barber's in the Rue de la Tour, and that there is a venison pasty in the oven and two flasks of the right vintage on the table.

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It was a most beautiful season; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage, but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature.

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The Prince sipped his wine - a cabinet hock of rare vintage - and found it good.

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Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.