vintage : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vintage	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for vintage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vintage n a season's yield of wine from a vineyard the oldness of wines Synonym(s): vintage, time of origin
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vintage \Vint"age\ (?; 48), 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}.] 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.