wine
An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
Example
“Wine is usually stronger than beer.”
Other meanings
An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV.
“...dandelion wine, rice wine, plum wine...”
A serving of wine.
“I'd like three beers and two wines, please. My friend will have the same.”
Word history
From Old English "wīn".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “wine” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.