CHAMPAGNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Champagne mean? 

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

1. a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there

2. a region of northeastern France

  Familiarity information: CHAMPAGNE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAMPAGNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

bubbly; champagne

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

sparkling wine (effervescent wine)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A region of northeastern France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Champagne; Champagne-Ardenne

Instance hypernyms:

French region (a geographical subdivision of France)

Meronyms (parts of "Champagne"):

Ardennes (a wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II)

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

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

 Context examples 

Venus rules beauty, fun, luxury, and all the things that embellish—designer clothes, jewels, perfume, champagne, fine wines and chocolates, flowers, lingerie, and more.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He invariably paid the way for both, and it was through him that Martin learned the refinements of food, drank his first champagne, and made acquaintance with Rhenish wines.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Bah! And bah! again. The champagne is already flat. The sparkle and bubble has gone out and it is a tasteless drink.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

One of them informed me that he had heard that Mr. Spenlow ate entirely off plate and china; and another hinted at champagne being constantly on draught, after the usual custom of table-beer.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"No, I drank champagne and romped and tried to flirt, and was altogether abominable," said Meg self-reproachfully.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My powerful and illustrious master, he began, Charles, King of Navarre, Earl of Evreux, Count of Champagne, who also writeth himself Overlord of Bearn, hereby sends his love and greetings to his dear cousin Edward, the Prince of Wales, Governor of Aquitaine, Grand Commander of—

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Stock up on flowers, a chilled bottle of champagne, and candles, and revel in your love as you ring in the New Year, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Do you know, I am filled with a strange uplift; I feel as if all time were echoing through me, as though all powers were mine. I know truth, divine good from evil, right from wrong. My vision is clear and far. I could almost believe in God. But,” and his voice changed and the light went out of his face,—“what is this condition in which I find myself? this joy of living? this exultation of life? this inspiration, I may well call it? It is what comes when there is nothing wrong with one’s digestion, when his stomach is in trim and his appetite has an edge, and all goes well. It is the bribe for living, the champagne of the blood, the effervescence of the ferment—that makes some men think holy thoughts, and other men to see God or to create him when they cannot see him.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He did not speak to her again till suppertime, when he saw her drinking champagne with Ned and his friend Fisher, who were behaving 'like a pair of fools', as Laurie said to himself, for he felt a brotherly sort of right to watch over the Marches and fight their battles whenever a defender was needed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Spenlow being a little drowsy after the champagne—honour to the soil that grew the grape, to the grape that made the wine, to the sun that ripened it, and to the merchant who adulterated it!—and being fast asleep in a corner of the carriage, I rode by the side and talked to Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)