vine

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/vaɪn/

Definition of vine

8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
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noun

  1. Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
  2. Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
  3. A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
    “This was a full-on jungle, full of all kinds of creepy things - snakes, spiders. They expected Tarzan to come swinging by on a vine.”
    “I could have easily been in the Congo. Trees, Tarzan-like vines, creepy crawlies, spiders and more spiders.”
  4. (UK, especially)A climbing plant that produces grapes.
    “They picked the grapes off the vine.”
    “Irám indeed is gone with all its Rose, And Jamshýd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows; But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, And still a Garden by the Water blows.”
  5. Any plant of the genus Vitis.
  6. (Internet)A looping video clip of a few seconds in duration, frequently used on social media.
    “Vine has become a weird tiny art form with its own conventions and trends and a robust community, none of which you will probably be able to keep up with if you aren't already, but at least we can appreciate the occasional Buzzfeed^([sic]) roundup of Vines.”

name

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Fountain County, Indiana, United States.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English vīne, from Anglo-Norman vigne, from Vulgar Latin vīnia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”), from *weh₁y- (“to twist, wrap”). Doublet of wine.

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2-letter words

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