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 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
- 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
- "Vintage" can simply mean old and used.
- Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «vintage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.