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vintager

vintager

9.9
A person who picks grapes to make wine
  • noun
  • /ˈvɪn.tɪ.dʒər/
  • Archaic
translation icon : vendimiador
  • The vintager carefully picked bunches of ripe grapes during the early morning harvest.

Examples

  • The winery hired dozens of vintagers to help with this year’s bumper crop.

  • As a seasonal vintager, she traveled to different vineyards each autumn.

  • The vintager picked grapes early in the morning.

  • Many vintagers work during the harvest season.

  • The vintager carefully picked bunches of ripe grapes during the early morning harvest.

  • As a seasonal vintager, she traveled to different vineyards each autumn.

  • The winery hired dozens of vintagers to help with this year's bumper crop.

Synonyms

harvester
vsvintager
9 2.0

A person or machine that collects crops when they are ready

is limited to people working with grapes destined for wine production

How Skilled

viticulturist
  • Specialized
9.2
vintager
  • Archaic
9.9
harvester
9 2.0

Surface Forms

vintager singular
vintagers plural

Morphology

vintager = vintage (opaque) = vintage + er

The agentive suffix '-er' is clear, but the base 'vintage' refers to a specialized wine-harvest sense that many learners will not readily connect to a person who harvests grapes.

Etymology

The word vintager comes from vintage, which is built on the old root vin- meaning 'wine' and a word meaning 'to take'. So a vintager is someone who 'takes' or picks the grape harvest to make wine.