vintage
part of speech
adjective (vintage); noun (a vintage, vintages)
meaning for a pupil
1) Vintage things are old but of good quality and valued, from an earlier time: vintage clothes, a vintage car. tree →
2) The vintage of a wine is the year or season when its grapes were picked, and the wine made from them. tree →
3) (informal) Vintage can mean typical of someone at their best: that joke was vintage Grandpa. tree →
4) Vintage can also mean the harvest time, when grapes are picked from the vines. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The vintage is the grape harvest. The prophets use its failure as a sign of punishment and loss, and the gleaning after it as a small but good thing. In the primary lessons: In everyday life, vintage shops sell old clothes, toys and furniture; vintage car shows display old cars. In science and farming, the grape harvest is the vintage. Phrases: vintage clothes, vintage car, a good vintage, vintage style.
examples
- And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time; and ye shall eat your bread until ye have enough, and dwell in your land safely. (Torah LEV.26.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? (Prophets JDG.8.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- After a year and days shall ye be troubled, ye confident women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come. (Prophets ISA.32.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not drink wine. (Prophets MIC.6.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- Mum bought a vintage dress from the charity shop. tree →
- We saw vintage cars at the show. tree →
- Her vintage teddy bear is older than Grandma. tree →
- This wine is a very good vintage. tree →
- That silly dance was vintage Dad. tree →
- Vintage toys can be worth a lot of money. tree →
- A VINE was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. tree →
note
Vintage means old and valued, not just old; a broken old thing is not usually called vintage. Related: antique (very old, usually over a hundred years), retro (new but in an old style). Wine is for adults only.
In the corpora
- Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
- "Vintage" can simply mean old and used.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «vintage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.