PORT WINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does port wine mean? 

• PORT WINE (noun)
  The noun PORT WINE has 1 sense:

1. sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal

  Familiarity information: PORT WINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORT WINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

port; port wine

Hypernyms ("port wine" is a kind of...):

fortified wine (wine to which alcohol (usually grape brandy) has been added)

 Context examples 

In the past, port wine stains have frequently been termed capillary hemangiomas, which they are not; unfortunately this confusing practice persists: HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY is neoplastic, a port-wine stain is non-neoplastic.

(Nevus Flammeus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

He said nothing at the moment, but turned to me, saying: Now take down our brave young lover, give him of the port wine, and let him lie down a while.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A great deal of very hot port wine was consumed at his call; and, considering the figure, I should think the Inner Temple must have made a profit by it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The officers of the —shire were in general a very creditable, gentlemanlike set, and the best of them were of the present party; but Mr. Wickham was as far beyond them all in person, countenance, air, and walk, as they were superior to the broad-faced, stuffy uncle Phillips, breathing port wine, who followed them into the room.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We did not stay there, after dinner, but came upstairs into the drawing-room again: in one snug corner of which, Agnes set glasses for her father, and a decanter of port wine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was a certain richness in his complexion, which I had been long accustomed, under Peggotty's tuition, to connect with port wine; and I fancied it was in his voice too, and referred his growing corpulency to the same cause.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I glanced about the room, which had had its sanded floor sanded, no doubt, in exactly the same manner when the chief waiter was a boy—if he ever was a boy, which appeared improbable; and at the shining tables, where I saw myself reflected, in unruffled depths of old mahogany; and at the lamps, without a flaw in their trimming or cleaning; and at the comfortable green curtains, with their pure brass rods, snugly enclosing the boxes; and at the two large coal fires, brightly burning; and at the rows of decanters, burly as if with the consciousness of pipes of expensive old port wine below; and both England, and the law, appeared to me to be very difficult indeed to be taken by storm.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)