adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to wine produced in the Rhine region.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Rhenish
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈɹɛnɪʃ/
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UK: /ˈɹiːnɪʃ/
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US: /ˈɹɛnɪʃ/
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US: /ˈɹinɪʃ/
adj
Meaning 2
Pertaining to the Rhine river or region.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A wine from the area around the Rhine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- He insists on drinking Rhenish from a stein!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The linguistic varieties spoken in the Rhineland, a continuum between traditional dialects and regional forms of Standard German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Rhinelandic
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
of or relating to the Rhine River and the lands adjacent to it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Rhenish wines tend to be sweet
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Rhine wine, hock
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: white wine
Narrower terms: Riesling, liebfraumilch
History
Etymology
From Rhine + -ish (with the first element taking a Latinate form; see Rhēnus).
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: հռենոսյան (hṙenosyan) — pertaining to the river Rhine
- Bulgarian: рейнски (rejnski) — pertaining to the river Rhine
- Catalan: renà — pertaining to the river Rhine
- French: rhénan — pertaining to the river Rhine
- German: rheinisch — pertaining to the river Rhine
- Hungarian: rajnai — pertaining to the river Rhine
- Irish: Réineach — pertaining to the river Rhine
- Italian: renano — pertaining to the river Rhine
- Portuguese: renano — pertaining to the river Rhine
- Russian: рейнский (rejnskij) — pertaining to the river Rhine
- Spanish: renano — pertaining to the river Rhine
- Welsh: Rheinaidd — pertaining to the river Rhine
- German: Rheinisch — regional form of High German
- Portuguese: renano — regional form of High German
Real reading context