vintage

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: vin=tage

CIDE DICTIONARY

vintage, n. [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.].

•  The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season.  [1913 Webster]

Vintage spring, a wine fount. -- Vintage time, the time of gathering grapes and making wine. Milton.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vintage, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a a season's produce of grapes. b the wine made from this.
2 a the gathering of grapes for wine-making. b the season of this.
3 a wine of high quality from a single identified year and district.
4 a the year etc. when a thing was made etc. b a thing made etc. in a particular year etc.
5 poet. or rhet. wine.
--adj.
1 of high quality, esp. from the past or characteristic of the best period of a person's work.
2 of a past season.

Idiom

vintage car Brit. a car made between 1917 and 1930. vintage festival a carnival to celebrate the beginning of the vintage.

Etymology

alt. (after VINTNER) of ME vendage, vindage f. OF vendange f. L vindemia f. vinum wine + demere remove

THESAURUS

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demode, fruit, generation, good, harvest, make, matured, mellowed, old, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-time, origin, outdated, outmoded, output, over the hill, passe, proceeds, produce, product, production, quality, seasoned, second crop, select, superior, year, yield

ROGET THESAURUS

vintage

Store

N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.

Agriculture

N agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming, georgics, geoponics, tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage, horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture, landscape gardening, viticulture, husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist, agricultor, agriculturist, yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman, granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist, Triptolemus, field, meadow, garden, botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden, nursery, green house, hot house, conservatory, bed, border, seed plot, grassplot, grassplat, lawn, park, parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard, vineyard, vinery, orangery, farm, agricultural, agrarian, agrestic, arable, predial, rural, rustic, country, horticultural.