Vintage vs Classical - What's the difference?
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The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.
The year or place in which something is produced.
(attributively) Of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.
(attributively) Having an enduring appeal; high-quality, classic (such as video or computer games from the 1980s and early 1990s, or old magazines, etc.).
(attributively) Of a motor car, built between the years 1919 and (usually) 1930 (or sometimes 1919 to 1925 in the USA) .
Of a watch, produced between the years 1870 and 1980.
To harvest (grapes).
To make (wine) from grapes.
Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
* Arbuthnot
Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
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(music) Describing European music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
(informal, music) Describing serious music (rather than pop, jazz, blues etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
* Macaulay
Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
* Macaulay
(physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
As adjectives the difference between vintage and classical
is that vintage is (attributively) of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage while classical is of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.As a noun vintage
is the yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.As a verb vintage
is to harvest (grapes).vintage
English
(wikipedia vintage)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* make vintageAdjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* non-vintage, nonvintage * post-vintage thoroughbred * rack vintage * unvintaged * vintage audio * vintage base ball * vintage car * vintage chocolate * vintage clothing * vintage dance * vintage guitar * vintage jewellery, vintage jewelry * vintage model * vintager * vintage snowmobiling * vintage spring * vintage time * vintage wine * vintage yearVerb
(vintag)Derived terms
* vintagingSee also
* classic * veteranExternal links
* * ----classical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject.
- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
- He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college.
- Classical , provincial, and national synods.