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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vintage \Vint"age\ (?; 48), noun [Corrupted by influence of vintner, vintry, from OE. vindage, vendage, for vendange, OF. vendenge, F. vendange, from L. vindemia; vinum wine, grapes + demere to take off; de + emere, originally, to take. See {Wine}, {Redeem}, and cf. {Vindemial}.]
1. The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.
2. The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season.
{Vintage spring}, a wine fount.
{Vintage time}, the time of gathering grapes and making wine. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vintage
noun
1: a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
2: the oldness of wines [syn: {time of origin}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "vintage": aftermath, aged, antiquated, antique, archaic, bearing, best, better, bumper crop, bygone, choice, classic, classical, collector, crop, dated, demode, fruit, generation, good, harvest, make, matured, mellowed, old, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-time, origin, outdated, outmoded, output, over the hill, passe, proceeds, produce, product, production, quality, seasoned, second crop, select, superior, year, yield
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