BORDEAUX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bordeaux mean? 

• BORDEAUX (noun)
  The noun BORDEAUX has 2 senses:

1. a port city in southwestern France; a major center of the wine trade

2. any of several red or white wines produced around Bordeaux, France or wines resembling them

  Familiarity information: BORDEAUX used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BORDEAUX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port city in southwestern France; a major center of the wine trade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Bordeaux" is a part of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several red or white wines produced around Bordeaux, France or wines resembling them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

Bordeaux; Bordeaux wine

Hypernyms ("Bordeaux" is a kind of...):

vino; wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Bordeaux"):

Medoc (red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France)

claret; red Bordeaux (dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine)

 Context examples 

Nay, it is but a day since I set foot in Bordeaux, but I feared lest the prince should think it strange that I had not waited upon him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Dogue de Bordeaux is a short, stocky mastiff with a huge, heavy, broad, wrinkled head.

(Dogue-de-Bordeaux, NCI Thesaurus)

The red-veined spinach variety Bordeaux is a parent of USDA Red.

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as he was only a few years older than me; but I didn’t want to do anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on the very morning of the wedding.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Will you not at least hie back to Bordeaux with us, that you may drain a cup of muscadine and sup at our table?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a bright, crisp winter's day when the little party set off from Bordeaux on their journey to Montaubon, where the missing half of their Company had last been heard of.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The one is the Archbishop of Bordeaux, Nigel, and the other the Bishop of Agen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our young friend here hath very fairly and honestly earned his right to be craftsman of the Honorable Guild of the Squires of Bordeaux.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So used were the good burghers of Bordeaux to martial display and knightly sport, that an ordinary joust or tournament was an everyday matter with them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Faith,” said Ford, “this air of Bordeaux hath turned our turtle-dove into a game-cock. A milder or more courteous youth never came out of Hampshire.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)