TOKAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tokay mean? 

• TOKAY (noun)
  The noun TOKAY has 2 senses:

1. Hungarian wine made from Tokay grapes

2. variety of wine grape originally grown in Hungary; the prototype of vinifera grapes

  Familiarity information: TOKAY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOKAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hungarian wine made from Tokay grapes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Tokay" is a kind of...):

vino; wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))

Holonyms ("Tokay" is a substance of...):

Tokay (variety of wine grape originally grown in Hungary; the prototype of vinifera grapes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Variety of wine grape originally grown in Hungary; the prototype of vinifera grapes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Tokay" is a kind of...):

vinifera grape (grape from a cultivated variety of the common grape vine of Europe)

Meronyms (substance of "Tokay"):

Tokay (Hungarian wine made from Tokay grapes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Tokay"):

flame tokay (purplish-red table grape)

 Context examples 

“Another glass, Watson!” said Mr. Sherlock Holmes as he extended the bottle of Imperial Tokay.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This, with some cheese and a salad and a bottle of old Tokay, of which I had two glasses, was my supper.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Altamont has a nice taste in wines, and he took a fancy to my Tokay. He is a touchy fellow and needs humouring in small things. I have to study him, I assure you.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)