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

vintage (countable and uncountable, plural vintages)

  1. The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
  2. Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
    • 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 1, in Tarzan of the Apes:
      I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
  3. The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.
  4. The year or place in which something is produced.

yield of grapes during one season

wine identified by year and vineyard

year or place something is produced

vintage (comparative more vintage, superlative most vintage)

  1. (attributively) Of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.
  2. (attributively) Having an enduring appeal; high-quality.
  3. (attributively) Classic, or old enough to be recognizably outdated but not old enough to be antique (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s or 1990s, old magazines, etc.).
    1. (Of a motor car) built between the years 1919 and (usually) 1930 (or sometimes 1919 to 1925 in the USA).
    2. (Of a watch) produced between the years 1870 and 1980.
    3. (Of an item of clothing) produced between the years of 1945 and 1970, during the post-war period.

of a watch, produced between the years 1870 and 1980

vintage (third-person singular simple present vintages, present participle vintaging, simple past and past participle vintaged)

  1. (transitive) To harvest (grapes).
  2. (transitive) To make (wine) from grapes.

to harvest grapes

to make wine from grapes

Borrowed from English vintage.

vintage c (plural vintages, no diminutive)

  1. vintage (yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season)
  2. vintage (wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin)
  3. (uncountable) vintage clothing; (countable) piece of vintage clothing

vintage (not comparable)

  1. vintage
Declension of vintage
uninflected vintage
inflected vintage
comparative —
positive
predicative/adverbial vintage
indefinite m./f. sing. vintage
n. sing. vintage
plural vintage
definite vintage
partitive vintages

From English vintage.

vintage (not comparable, indeclinable)

  1. vintage

Mostly only used in compounds.

Borrowed from English vintage.

vintage (plural vintages)

  1. vintage (clarification of this definition is needed)

Unadapted borrowing from English vintage.

vintage n (indeclinable)

  1. vintage (wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin)
  2. vintage (vogue for old items)

Borrowed from English vintage. Doublet of vendimia.

vintage m or f (masculine and feminine plural vintages)

  1. vintage (classic, or old enough to be recognizably outdated but not old enough to be antique)
    • 2019 August 9, Paola Jiménez, “Tips que te ayudarán a la hora de comprar ropa vintage [Tips that will help you when you're buying vintage clothes]”, in El Universal‎[3]:
      Cuando tengas en tus manos toda la ropa vintage que compraste, una de las primeras cosas que debes hacer es lavarla, ya que pudo haber permanecido en la tienda por mucho tiempo sin haber sido lavada antes.
      Once you have your hands on all the vintage clothes you bought, one of the first things you should do is wash it, since it could have stayed in the store for a long time without being washed beforehand.
    • 2020 January 14, “Gucci cierra Semana de la Moda en Milán rompiendo estereotipos masculinos [Gucci closes Milan Fashion Week by breaking masculine stereotypes]”, in El Nacional (Venezuela)‎[4]:
      La nueva colección combina el clasicismo de algunas prendas, especialmente en el calzado, con un estilo vintage de los ochenta.
      The new collection combines the classicism of some garments, especially the footwear, with a vintage eighties style.
    • 2022 July 22, Beatriz Gámez Jareño, “Las neveras de estilo vintage más encantadoras para tu cocina [The most charming vintage style refrigerators for your kitchen]”, in El País‎[5]:
      Los modelos y estilos son muy variados, pero hay uno que nunca pasa de moda: el estilo vintage o retro.
      Models and styles very a lot, but there's one that never goes out of fashion: vintage or retro.