VINTAGE


Meaning of VINTAGE in English

I. ˈvin-tij 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

II. adjective

Date: 1601

1. of wine : of, relating to, or produced in a particular vintage

2. : of old, recognized, and enduring interest, importance, or quality : classic

3.

a. : dating from the past : old

b. : outmoded , old-fashioned

4. : of the best and most characteristic — used with a proper noun

vintage Shaw: a wise and winning comedy — Time

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.