wine

UK: /ˈwaɪn/ US: /waɪn/ ,(wīn)

Inflections of 'wine' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

wines

v 3rd person singular

wining

v pres p

wined

v past

wined

v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

wine /waɪn/   n., v., wined, win•ing. 
n. 

1. Wine the fermented juice of grapes, or sometimes of other fruits, used esp. as an alcoholic beverage:
   [uncountable] a glass of wine.
   [countable] red wines.

Idioms

2. Idioms wine and dine, [~ + object] to entertain (someone) lavishly.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

wine  (wīn), n., adj., v., wined, win•ing. 
n. 

1. Wine the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
2. Wine a particular variety of such fermented grape juice:
   port and sherry wines.
3. Wine the juice, fermented or unfermented, of various other fruits or plants, used as a beverage, sauce, etc.:
   gooseberry wine; currant wine.
4. a dark reddish color, as of red wines.
5. [Pharm.] vinum.
6. something that invigorates, cheers, or intoxicates like wine.
7. British Terms
   • a social gathering at which wine is the major beverage.
   • a party, esp. one held by university students, for drinking wine.
8. [Obs.] intoxication due to the drinking of wine.
9. Bible new wine in old bottles, something new placed in or superimposed on an old or existing form, system, etc. Matt. 9:17.

adj. 

10. dark red in color.

v.t. 

11. to supply with wine:
    He wined his cellar with rare vintages.

v.i. 

12. to drink wine.
13. wine and dine, to entertain lavishly:
    They wined and dined us in order to get us to sign the new contract.

• Middle English (noun, nominal), Old English wīn (cognate with Dutch wijn, German Wein, Old Norse vīn, Gothic wein) Latin vīnum (cognate with Greek oînos) bef. 900

wine′less, adj. 
win′ish, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

wine / waɪn/ noun

1. an alcoholic drink produced by the fermenting of grapes with water and sugar
2. an alcoholic drink produced in this way from other fruits, flowers, etc: elderberry wine
3. a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
4. (as adjective): wine-coloured
5. anything resembling wine in its intoxicating or invigorating effect
6. Adam's wine ⇒
   a dialect word for water
7. new wine in old bottles ⇒ something new added to or imposed upon an old or established order

verb

1. (intransitive) to drink wine
2. wine and dine ⇒ to entertain or be entertained with wine and fine food

Etymology: Old English wīn, from Latin vīnum; related to Greek oinos, of obscure origin

ˈwineless adjective

wine / waɪn/ verb (intransitive)

1. to dance by rotating the pelvis

Etymology: from wind²