Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An inexpensive red table wine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Common wine; low-priced wine such as is almost universally drunk mixed with water throughout the larger part of France, and to a less extent in other countries of southern Europe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A cheap claret, used as a table wine in France.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A cheap claret, used as a table wine in France.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun cheap French table wine of unspecified origin

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French : vin, wine + ordinaire, ordinary.]

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French, literally "common wine".

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