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winery

winery

46 3.0
A place where people make wine to sell
  • noun
  • /ˈwaɪnəri/
translation icon : bodega
  • Today, Idaho has more than 25 wineries, compared to only 8 in 1985.
  • vineyard and winery
  • winery owners
  • winery business model

This was in response to a suit that he filed a few years ago regarding a winery the couple had owned together.

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Examples

  • After studying the art of winemaking, she opened her own winery in the countryside.

  • Here we will visit the Inniskillen winery, where there will be plenty of photo ops among the beautiful vineyards.

    Academic text (1999)
  • How am I supposed to turn a winery around?

  • So, do you want to work in a winery or something?

  • The folks who set up the winery were a California family...

    Fiction book (1993)
  • We can go to my friend's winery.

  • What do you think about opening a winery?

  • Come see me at the winery.

  • Well, you should work for a fancy winery in some fancy place.

  • Grapes are sold wholesale to wineries in Sonoma and Napa Valley, California.

    Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

cantina
vswinery
  • US
1 5.8

A small cellar where people store and sometimes make wine

is more focused on commercial production than small storage or serving buildings
wine maker
vswinery
3.2

A place where people make wine and bottle it

is a place for commercial production rather than any wine-making site

How Big

winery
46 3.0

Surface Forms

winery singular
wineries plural

Morphology

winery = wine (transparent) = wine + ery

The place-denoting suffix '-ery' attaches to the noun 'wine' to form a location where wine is produced; the meaning is direct and predictable.

Etymology

Winery comes from the simple parts wine and -ery, where -ery means 'a place for' or a 'business that does something', just like bakery is a place for bread. So, a winery is a place where people make wine, often to sell.