VINEYARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vineyard mean? 

• VINEYARD (noun)
  The noun VINEYARD has 1 sense:

1. a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced

  Familiarity information: VINEYARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VINEYARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

vinery; vineyard

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

farm (workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit)

 Context examples 

Where are the steadings, and orchards, and vineyards, which made France fair?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, in three hours travelling, the scene was wholly altered; we came into a most beautiful country; farmers’ houses, at small distances, neatly built; the fields enclosed, containing vineyards, corn-grounds, and meadows.

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

I found a great many foxes, disparaging whole vineyards of inaccessible grapes; but I found very few foxes whom I would have trusted within reach of a bunch.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After a brief stay there, I shall bear my treasure to regions nearer the sun: to French vineyards and Italian plains; and she shall see whatever is famous in old story and in modern record: she shall taste, too, of the life of cities; and she shall learn to value herself by just comparison with others.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the bottle the acids were long ago resolved; the imperial dye had softened with time, as the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards, was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was indeed an enormous crowd which covered the whole vast plain from the line of vineyards to the river bank.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Broken fences, crumbling walls, vineyards littered with stones, the shattered arches of bridges—look where you might, the signs of ruin and rapine met the eye.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other side lay a strip of vineyard, and beyond it the desolate and sandy region of the Landes, all tangled with faded gorse and heath and broom, stretching away in unbroken gloom to the blue hills which lay low upon the furthest sky-line.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, then, the King of France had followed us with fifty thousand men, and he made great haste to catch us, but when he had us he scarce knew what to do with us, for we were so drawn up among hedges and vineyards that they could not come nigh us, save by one lane.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)