champagne
(ʃæmpeɪn )
Word forms: champagnes
1. variable noun B1
Champagne is an expensive French white wine with bubbles in. It is often drunk to celebrate something.
2. champagne corks pop phrase [VERB inflects]
If you say that champagne corks are popping, you mean that people are celebrating something.
Image of champagne
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Collocations:
drink champagne sip champagne
Provided you don't tend to eat very much and only drink champagne, wearing white will be a doddle.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
He would only drink champagne opened in front of him and only Krug 71. The melba toast for the caviare had to be just so thin.
BLOOD IS DIRT (2002)
On her way home she called on her cousins in Leipzig, where they all drank champagne with whole peaches in each glass.
Spitfire Women of World War II (2007)
I drink champagne while floating in the pool and watch staff manicure the lawns.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Then we drank champagne in the scorching sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Most people are lounging about sipping champagne.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Imagine sipping champagne on a blanket, surrounded by wild flowers alongside a rushing river.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Visitors can sample strawberries and sip champagne while drinking in the surroundings.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Translations:
Chinese: 香槟酒
Japanese: シャンパン
- painfully evident
- painfully familiar
- painfully honest
- painfully obvious
- painfully shy
- painfully slow
- painful memories
- painful past
- painful period
- painful procedure
- painful process
- painful rash
- painful reality
- painful recession
- painful reform
- painful reminder
- painful restructuring
- painful sacrifice
- painful separation
- painful shock
- painful silence
- painful spasm
- painful sting
- painful surgery
- painful symptom