English word senses marked with topical category "Wine bottles"
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Total 30 word senses
- Balthazar (Proper name) A male given name from Old Persian.
- Balthazar (Noun) A very large wine bottle with the capacity of about 12 liters, equivalent to 16 standard bottles.
- Goliath (Proper name) A male given name from Hebrew
- Imperial (Adjective) Clipping of Imperial Japanese.
- Imperial (Proper name) A city in Imperial County, California, United States.
- Imperial (Proper name) A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- Imperial (Noun) A large Bordeaux wine bottle with the capacity of about 6 liters, equivalent to 8 standard bottles.
- Jeroboam (Noun) A bottle of champagne or Burgundy wine containing 3 liters of fluid, four times the volume of a standard bottle.
- 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 (Noun) A very large wine bottle (named after the King) with the capacity of about 18 liters, equivalent to 24 standard bottles.
- Melchizedek (Proper name) A king and priest mentioned in the book of Genesis; contemporary of Abraham.
- 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”).
- 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 (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.
- 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.
- piccolo (Noun) A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
- 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.
- 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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