1. The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
2. Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
3. The year or place in which a wine is bottled.
4.
a. The harvesting of a grape crop.
b. The initial stages of winemaking.
5. Informal
a. A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.
b. A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage.
c. Length of existence; age.
adj.
1. Of or relating to a vintage.
2. Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.
3. Old or outmoded.
4.
a. Of the best: played songs that were vintage Cole Porter.
b. Of the most distinctive: Fatalism has coexisted with vintage American overconfidence(Thomas Oliphant).
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, alteration (influenced by viniter, vintner) of Old French vendange, from Latin vndmia : vnum, grapes + dmere, to take off (d, de- + emere, to obtain; see em- in Indo-European roots).]
vintage /vntd/ n. a wine harvest, esp. the year: They drank a French wine of a 1986 vintage. adj.1 indicating good quality and old age: a vintage wine (car, year, etc.)2 from an earlier time, but often still fashionable or desirable: I got a great sweater from the 1960s at the vintage clothing store.
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adj. 1 indicating good quality and old age: a vintage wine (car, year, etc.) 2 from an earlier time, but often still fashionable or desirable: I got a great sweater from the 1960s at the vintage clothing store. 
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