BURGUNDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Burgundy mean? 

• BURGUNDY (noun)
  The noun BURGUNDY has 3 senses:

1. a former province of eastern France that is famous for its wines

2. red table wine from the Burgundy region of France (or any similar wine made elsewhere)

3. a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color

  Familiarity information: BURGUNDY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURGUNDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former province of eastern France that is famous for its wines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bourgogne; Burgundy

Instance hypernyms:

French region (a geographical subdivision of France)

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Red table wine from the Burgundy region of France (or any similar wine made elsewhere)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

Burgundy; Burgundy wine

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

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

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

Beaujolais (dry fruity light red wine drunk within a few months after it is made; from the Beaujolais district in southeastern France)

Chablis; white Burgundy (dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling it)

Montrachet (a white Burgundy wine)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A dark purplish-red to blackish-red color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

dark red (a red color that reflects little light)

 Context examples 

I did what I could for him, but he would wear ribbons in his shoes, and he publicly mistook white Burgundy for Rhine wine.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles burgundy.

(Burgundy Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

Those regions where the heaviest rainfall were found include Nord-pas-de-calais, Picardy, Isle of France – where Paris is located, Champagne-Ardenne, Burgundy, Centre and Franche-Comte.

(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)

From Providence to Burgundy we are beset by every prowling hireling in Christendom, who rend and tear the country which you have left too weak to guard her own marches.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They found by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me; and being a most ingenious people, they slung up, with great dexterity, one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)