"Merlot" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /mɝˈloʊ/ [US], /mɛɹˈloʊ/ [US] Forms: Merlots [plural]
Etymology: From French, a diminutive of merle (“blackbird”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|-}} French Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} Merlot (usually uncountable, plural Merlots)
  1. A dark-blue variety of wine grape. Wikidata QID: Q213338 Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (dark-blue variety of wine grape): 梅樂 (Chinese Mandarin), 梅乐 (méilè) (Chinese Mandarin), 美樂 (Chinese Mandarin), 美乐 (měilè) (Chinese Mandarin), 梅洛 (méiluò) (Chinese Mandarin), 梅鹿汁 (méilùzhī) (Chinese Mandarin), 梅露汁 (méilùzhī) (Chinese Mandarin), 梅鹿輒 (Chinese Mandarin), 梅鹿辄 (méilùzhé) (Chinese Mandarin), 墨爾樂 (Chinese Mandarin), 墨尔乐 (mò'ěrlè) (Chinese Mandarin), Merlot (Finnish), merlot [masculine] (French), Merlot-Traube [feminine] (German), מרלו (merlo) [masculine] (Hebrew), Merlot (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Merlot-en-noun-en:Q213338 Disambiguation of 'dark-blue variety of wine grape': 97 3
  2. A dry red wine of a certain French type, made from Merlot grapes. Wikidata QID: Q125396288 Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Wines Categories (lifeform): Grape cultivars Synonyms: merlot Translations (dry red wine): 梅樂 (Chinese Mandarin), 梅乐 (méilè) (Chinese Mandarin), 美樂 (Chinese Mandarin), 美乐 (měilè) (Chinese Mandarin), 梅洛 (méiluò) (Chinese Mandarin), 梅鹿汁 (méilùzhī) (Chinese Mandarin), 梅露汁 (méilùzhī) (Chinese Mandarin), 梅鹿輒 (Chinese Mandarin), 梅鹿辄 (méilùzhé) (Chinese Mandarin), 墨爾樂 (Chinese Mandarin), 墨尔乐 (mò'ěrlè) (Chinese Mandarin), Merlot (Finnish), Merlot [masculine] (German), מרלו (merlo) (Hebrew), merlot [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Merlot-en-noun-en:Q125396288 Disambiguation of Wines: 20 80 Disambiguation of Grape cultivars: 28 72 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 13 87 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 11 89 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 93 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 3 97 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of 'dry red wine': 6 94

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.