winenoun [ C or U ]
uk/waɪn/us/waɪn/A1 an alcoholic drink that is usually made from grapes, but can also be made from other fruits or flowers. It is made by fermenting the fruit with water and sugar:
a wine cellar/connoisseur/cooler/glass
red/white/dry/sweet/sparkling/table wine
Let's have a bottle/glass of wine with dinner.
I love Australian wines, especially the white wines.
Would you like to see the wine list, sir?
More examples
- Chill the wine before serving.
- Let the fish cook for half an hour before you add the wine.
- This wine is delicious.
- Most supermarkets stock a wide range of wines.
- There's no point buying him expensive wines - he doesn't appreciate them.
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Wines & winemaking
- -bodied
- amontillado
- Bordeaux
- breathe
- brut
- bubbly
- lay
- magnum
- Marsala
- martini
- nose
- oaky
- oenophile
- red wine
- rough
- vintner
- viticulture
- white wine
- wine cooler
- winery
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wineverb
uk/waɪn/us/waɪn/wine and dine sb
to entertain someone by giving them food and drinks:
The survey concludes that most women like to be wined and dined on the first few dates.
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Celebrating & entertaining
- a good time was had by all idiom
- amuse
- amused
- bacchanalian
- banquet
- entertain
- entertaining
- go to town idiom
- have a whale of a time idiom
- host
- kill
- kill the fatted calf idiom
- perform
- push
- revel in sth
- revelry
- scintillate
- see in the New Year idiom
- spirit
- town
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