Vintage

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

vintage
    n 1: a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
    2: the oldness of wines [syn: {vintage}, {time of origin}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Vintage \Vint"age\ (?; 48), n. [Corrupted by influence of
   vintner, vintry, from OE. vindage, vendage, for vendange, OF.
   vendenge, F. vendange, from L. vindemia; vinum wine, grapes +
   demere to take off; de + emere, originally, to take. See
   {Wine}, {Redeem}, and cf. {Vindemial}.]
   1. The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in
      wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.
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   2. The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making
      the wine for a season.
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   {Vintage spring}, a wine fount.

   {Vintage time}, the time of gathering grapes and making wine.
      --Milton.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

45 Moby Thesaurus words for "vintage":
      aftermath, aged, antiquated, antique, archaic, bearing, best,
      better, bumper crop, bygone, choice, classic, classical, collector,
      crop, dated, demode, fruit, generation, good, harvest, make,
      matured, mellowed, old, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-time,
      origin, outdated, outmoded, output, over the hill, passe, proceeds,
      produce, product, production, quality, seasoned, second crop,
      select, superior, year, yield