# vintage

Pronunciation: US say "VIN-tij" /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/; UK

## Adjective

1. Classic, or old enough to look plainly outdated but not old enough to be antique, such as old watches, 1980s or 1990s video games, or old magazines.
   - Simple: Classic, or old enough to look out of date but not old enough to count as an antique.
   - _The repair shop specializes in vintage computers, mostly beige desktops from the early 1990s._
   - _He tracked down a vintage cassette player so he could listen to his old mixtapes again._
3. Of high quality and lasting appeal.
   - Simple: Very good, and still liked after a long time.
   - _The champion put on a vintage performance to win in straight sets._
   - _The album is vintage soul, as fresh today as the week it came out._
6. Relating to a vintage, or describing wine identified by the particular year in which it was made.
   - Simple: Having to do with the wine of one year, or with wine named by its year.
   - _They put away a bottle of vintage port for the baby's eighteenth birthday._
   - _The vintage chart rates each year's wines from poor to outstanding._
7. Of a car, built between 1919 and, usually, 1930, or in the US sometimes between 1919 and 1925.
   - Simple: Of a car, made between 1919 and about 1930.
   - _Only vintage cars built before 1931 may enter the hill climb._
   - _His pride and joy is a vintage roadster built in 1926._

## Noun

2. Wine, especially of high quality, identified by the year it was made and the vineyard or district it comes from.
   - Simple: Wine, often very good wine, that is named by the year and place it was made.
   - _He opened a rare old vintage to celebrate their anniversary._
   - _Collectors bid thousands of dollars on the finest vintages at the auction._
4. The year in which something was made, or the place where it was produced.
   - Simple: The year or place where something was made.
   - _The farmhouse still has wiring of uncertain vintage._
   - _Most of the office laptops are of 2015 vintage and painfully slow._
5. The grapes or wine produced by a vineyard or district in a single season.
   - Simple: All the grapes or wine that a grape farm or area makes in one season.
   - _This year's vintage was small because of the late spring frost._
   - _Growers in the valley expect a record vintage after the long, dry summer._
8. The harvesting of a grape crop and the first pressing of its juice for making wine.
   - Simple: The picking of grapes and the first pressing of their juice to make wine.
   - _Students from the village help with the vintage every September._
   - _During the vintage, the presses run late into the night._

## Verb

9. To harvest grapes from the vines.
   - Simple: To pick grapes from the vines.
   - _The growers will vintage the hillside grapes next week._
   - _Volunteers vintaged the grapes from the oldest vines by hand._
10. To make wine out of grapes.
   - Simple: To turn grapes into wine.
   - _The monks have vintaged their own wine here for centuries._
   - _Small producers vintage only a few hundred cases of red each year._

## Other meanings

- (adjective) Of clothing, made in the postwar period between 1945 and 1970.
- (adjective) Of a watch, made between 1870 and 1980.

## Origin

From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (compare modern French vendange), from Latin vindēmia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”). The Latin word combines vīnum (“wine”) with dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), itself from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“take”).

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/vintage (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).