English word senses marked with topical category "Wine bottles"

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Total 36 word senses

• Balthazar (Proper name) A male given name from Old Persian.
• Goliath (Proper name) A male given name from Hebrew
• Imperial (Proper name) A city in Imperial County, California, United States.
• Jeroboam (Noun) A bottle of Bordeaux wine containing 4.5 liters of fluid, six times the volume of a standard bottle.
• Marie Jeanne (Noun) A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 2.25 liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle.
• McKenzie (Noun) A large Bordeaux wine bottle with the capacity of about 5 liters, equivalent to 6⅔ standard bottles.
• Melchior (Proper name) A male given name from Hebrew.
• Melchizedek (Proper name) A king and priest mentioned in the book of Genesis; contemporary of Abraham.
• Methuselah (Proper name) The oldest person whose age is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, having reportedly lived 969 years.
• Methuselah (Proper name) A planet in PSR B1620-26 star system, Messier 4 globular cluster, Milky Way Galaxy, Scorpius constellation; the oldest planet discovered at the time of discovery in 2003; a circumbinary planet orbiting a pulsar (“PSR B1620-26 A”) and white dwarf (“WD B1620-26 B”).
• Methuselah (Noun) Alternative spelling of methuselah (“large wine bottle”).
• Midas (Proper name) A king who sought and was for a while granted the cherished but subtly dangerous magical power to turn anything he touched into gold.
• Midas (Noun) A very large champagne bottle (named after the King) with the capacity of about 30 liters, equivalent to 40 standard bottles.
• Nebuchadnezzar (Proper name) A ruler of Babylon in the Chaldean Dynasty who reigned c. 605 B.C.E. – 562 B.C.E.. According to the Bible, he conquered Judah and Jerusalem, and sent the Israelites into exile.
• Nebuchadnezzar (Noun) A very large wine bottle (named after the King) with the capacity of about 15 liters, equivalent to 20 standard bottles.
• Primat (Noun) A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 27 liters, equivalent to 36 standard bottles.
• Rehoboam (Noun) A bottle of Champagne or Burgundy wine containing 4.5 liters of fluid, six times the volume of a standard bottle.
• Rehoboam (Proper name) King of Israel after Solomon, whose folly split the kingdom in two; the father of Abijah (biblical character)
• Rehoboam (Proper name) A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin, in rare use.
• Salmanazar (Noun) A bottle of champagne or Burgundy wine containing 9 liters of fluid, twelve times the volume of a standard bottle.
• Solomon (Proper name) In the Old Testament and Qur'an, a king of Israel famous for his wisdom; father of King Rehoboam and the son of King David.
• Solomon (Proper name) A male given name from Ancient Greek [in turn from Hebrew], feminine equivalent Salome.
• Solomon (Proper name) An unincorporated community in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States.
• Solomon (Proper name) A minor city in Dickinson County and Saline County, Kansas, United States.
• Solomon (Proper name) An electoral division in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
• chopine (Noun) A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 0.250 fluid liters, ⅓ of the volume of a standard bottle.
• clavelin (Noun) A bottle of wine containing 62 centiliters of fluid, traditionally used for vin jaune.
• magnum (Noun) A bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle.
• magnum (Noun) A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.
• magnum (Noun) A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre.
• piccolo (Noun) A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
• sovereign (Adjective) Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
• sovereign (Noun) A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
• sovereign (Noun) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
• tappit hen (Noun) A bottle of wine in the port wine trade containing 2.25 liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle.
• tregnum (Noun) A bottle of wine in the port wine trade containing 2.25 liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle.

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