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vint·ner

(vĭnt′nər)

1. A wine merchant.

2. One who makes wine.

[Middle English vineter, from Old French vinetier, from Medieval Latin vīnētārius, from Latin vīnētum, vineyard, from vīnum, wine.]

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vintner

(ˈvɪntnə)

1. (Professions) a wine merchant

2. (Brewing) a wine merchant

[C15: from Old French vinetier, from Medieval Latin vīnētārius, from Latin vīnētum vineyard, from vīnum wine]

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vint•ner

(ˈvɪnt nər)

n.

a person who makes wine or sells wines.

[1400–50; vint(e)ner < Old French vinetier < Medieval Latin vīnētārius= Latin vīnēt(um) vineyard (vīn(um) wine + -ētum; see arboretum) + -ārius -ary]

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Noun	1.	vintner - someone who sells wine wine merchant merchandiser, merchant - a businessperson engaged in retail trade
	2.	vintner - someone who makes wine wine maker, winemaker maker, shaper - a person who makes things

Translations

vinaio

vintner

[ˈvɪntnəʳ] N (= merchant) → vinatero/a m/f; (= wine-maker) → vinicultor(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

vintner

n → Weinhändler(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

vintner

[ˈvɪntnəʳ] n (retailer) → vinaio/a; (wholesaler) → commerciante m/f di vini

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On this twenty-fifth of March, it was John Willet's pride annually to settle, in hard cash, his account with a certain vintner and distiller in the city of London; to give into whose hands a canvas bag containing its exact amount, and not a penny more or less, was the end and object of a journey for Joe, so surely as the year and day came round.

But the air of smartness, the cock of the hat to which John Willet had objected, and the spring nosegay, all betokened some little errand of his own, having a more interesting object than a vintner or even a locksmith.

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