vintage

UK: /ˈvɪntɪdʒ/ US: /ˈvɪntɪdʒ/ ,(vin′tij)

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

vintages

v 3rd person singular

vintaging

v pres p

vintaged

v past

vintaged

v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026

vin•tage /ˈvɪntɪdʒ/   n. 

1. Wine [countable] the wine from a particular harvest or crop, esp. a very fine wine from the crop of a good year.
2. the output of a particular time or year;
   a collection of things manufactured or in use at the same time:
   [uncountable] a car of 1917 vintage.

adj. [before a noun]

3. Wine being of a specified vintage:
   a 1978 vintage wine.
4. representing the high quality of a past time;
   classic:
   those old, vintage movies.
5. being the best of its kind;
   choice:
   a vintage Shakespearean performance.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

vin•tage  (vin′tij), n., adj., v., -taged, -tag•ing. 
n. 

1. Wine the wine from a particular harvest or crop.
2. Wine the annual produce of the grape harvest, esp. with reference to the wine obtained.
3. Wine an exceptionally fine wine from the crop of a good year.
4. Wine the time of gathering grapes, or of winemaking.
5. Wine the act or process of producing wine;
   winemaking.
6. the class of a dated object with reference to era of production or use:
   a hat of last year's vintage.

adj. 

7. Wine of or pertaining to wines or winemaking.
8. Wine being of a specified vintage:
   Vintage wines are usually more expensive than nonvintage wines.
9. representing the high quality of a past time:
   vintage cars; vintage movies.
10. old-fashioned or obsolete:
    vintage jokes.
11. being the best of its kind:
    They praised the play as vintage O'Neill.

v.t. 

12. Wine to gather or harvest (grapes) for wine-making:
    The muscats were vintaged too early.
13. Wine to make (wine) from grapes:
    a region that vintages a truly great champagne.

v.i. 

14. Wine to harvest grapes for wine-making.

• Latin vīndēmia grape-gathering, equivalent. to vīn(um) grape, wine + -dēmia a taking away (dēm(ere) to take from (see redeem) + -ia -y³)
• Anglo-French; Old French vendange
• Anglo-French, equivalent. to vint(er) vintner + -age -age; replacing Middle English vindage, vendage
• late Middle English (noun, nominal) 1400–50

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

vintage / ˈvɪntɪdʒ/ noun

1. the wine obtained from a harvest of grapes, esp in an outstandingly good year, referred to by the year involved, the district, or the vineyard
2. the harvest from which such a wine is obtained
3. the harvesting of wine grapes
4. the season of harvesting these grapes or for making wine
5. a time of origin: a car of Edwardian vintage
6. a group of people or objects of the same period: a fashion of last season's vintage

adjective

1. (of wine) of an outstandingly good year
2. representative of the best and most typical: vintage Shakespeare
3. of lasting interest and importance; venerable; classic: vintage films
4. old-fashioned; dated

Etymology: 15th Century: from Old French vendage (influenced by vintener vintner), from Latin vindēmia, from vīnum wine, grape + dēmere to take away (from dē- away + emere to take)