Vintage \Vint"age\ (?; 48), n. [Corrupted by influence of
   vintner, vintry, from OE. vindage, vendage, for vendange, OF.
   vendenge, F. vendange, from L. vindemia; vinum wine, grapes +
   demere to take off; de + emere, originally, to take. See
   Wine, Redeem, and cf. Vindemial.]
   1. The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in
      wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.
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   2. The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making
      the wine for a season.
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   Vintage spring, a wine fount.

   Vintage time, the time of gathering grapes and making wine.
      --Milton.
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	vintage
    n 1: a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
    2: the oldness of wines [syn: vintage, time of origin]

	

	45 Moby Thesaurus words for "vintage":
   aftermath, aged, antiquated, antique, archaic, bearing, best,
   better, bumper crop, bygone, choice, classic, classical, collector,
   crop, dated, demode, fruit, generation, good, harvest, make,
   matured, mellowed, old, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-time,
   origin, outdated, outmoded, output, over the hill, passe, proceeds,
   produce, product, production, quality, seasoned, second crop,
   select, superior, year, yield