VINTAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vintage mean? 

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

1. a season's yield of wine from a vineyard

2. the oldness of wines

  Familiarity information: VINTAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VINTAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A season's yield of wine from a vineyard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

The oldness of wines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

time of origin; vintage

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

oldness (the quality of being old; the opposite of newness)

 Context examples 

Its appearance and the dust upon the bottle showed that it was no common vintage which the murderers had enjoyed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We travelled at the time of the vintage and heard the song of the labourers as we glided down the stream.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For example, you may be working with elegant vintage clothing, a valuable historical art collection, or beautiful estate jewelry.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Casks of choice wine had been rolled out from the cellars, and starving peasants squatted, goblet in hand, draining off vintages which De Rochefort had set aside for noble and royal guests.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then Sherlock Holmes cocked his eye at me, leaning back on the cushions with a pleased and yet critical face, like a connoisseur who has just taken his first sip of a comet vintage.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)