n.
Pronunciation: ' vin-tij
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, probably alteration of vendage, from Anglo-French vendage, vendenge, from Latin vindemia grape-gathering, vintage, from vinum wine, grapes + demere to take off, from de- + emere to take ― more at WINE , REDEEM
Date: 15th century
1 a (1) : a season's yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard (2) : WINE especially : a usually superior wine all or most of which comes from a single year b : a collection of contemporaneous and similar persons or things : CROP
2 : the act or time of harvesting grapes or making wine
3 a : a period of origin or manufacture <a piano of 1845 vintage > b : length of existence : AGE