white wine
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- noun
- /waɪt waɪn/
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vino blanco
- To complement the seafood dish, we chose a chilled white wine from the menu.
- dry white wine
- glass of white wine
- bottle of white wine
In my cookbook recipe, I add white wine and chicken stock.
- In my cookbook recipe, I add white wine and chicken stock.
- It is fantastic white wine, just a little Chardonnay.
- And a bit of white wine or white wine vinegar.
- And there was a study actually done in France where they took white wine and red wine.
- And then the next step you would take is adding in your white wine.
- She actually introduced us to Kier, you know, this drink that was made with white wine and kassis maybe.
- I think we depleted all of their supplies of Shahrazad white wine.
- So if you don't like coffee, you don't often like red wine as much as white wine.
Examples
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Wendler never drinks more than an occasional glass of white wine, she and Friesen say.
Academic text (1993) -
Then they had a lunch of soft-shelled crabs and a good white wine.
Fiction book (1995) -
I would like - a glass of white wine.
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Can I get a beer and a white wine?
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- May I have a glass of white wine?
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Some white wine, if you have it.
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I remembered that Tom liked white wine.
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A waiter brought trays of tall glasses with cool white wine and passed them among the waiting customers.
Fiction book (1993) -
It is fantastic white wine, just a little Chardonnay.
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We're gonna take a plane trip to Napa and we'll share a nice bottle of white wine overlooking the vineyards.
Synonyms
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An alcoholic drink made from the fermented juice of grapes or other fruits
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A fizzy wine from the Champagne region of France or a similar sparkling wine
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A dry white wine with a crisp, fruity taste
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A white wine with a fresh, fruity taste often served cold
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A dry white wine from Chablis, France, sometimes made elsewhere
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A sparkling wine often used for celebrations
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A white grape and dry wine made from it, first from France and now grown around the world
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A type of white grape or the white wine made from that grape with flowery, fruity smells
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A white grape that grows in places like France and California and the dry white wine from that grape
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A dry white wine from Burgundy in France, like Chablis
How Pale
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a pale yellowish wine...' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'white' (pale color) with 'wine' (fermented grape beverage) in a standard adjective + noun construction. This composition is cross-linguistically common and the referent is inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The name white wine comes from the pale color of the drink. It was made from light grapes or from red grapes with the skins taken away so the wine stayed white, and that is why today white wine means the lighter, yellowish wines people serve with fish or in warm weather.