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# vintage

«vintage» in Mova's school dictionary: **old but of good quality and valued, from an earlier time:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vintage/#m1)

2) The vintage of a wine is the year or season when its grapes were picked, and the wine made from them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vintage/#m2)

3) (informal) Vintage can mean typical of someone at their best: that joke was vintage Grandpa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vintage/#m3)

4) Vintage can also mean the harvest time, when grapes are picked from the vines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vintage/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vintage/#x1)
- We saw vintage cars at the show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vintage/#x2)
- Her vintage teddy bear is older than Grandma. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vintage/#x3)
- This wine is a very good vintage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vintage/#x4)
- That silly dance was vintage Dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vintage/#x5)
- Vintage toys can be worth a lot of money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vintage/#x6)
- A VINE was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vintage/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/15/)
- [Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.226/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vintage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vintage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.