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wino

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈwaɪnəʊ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -aɪnəʊ
  • /ˈwiːnəʊ/
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  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -iːnəʊ
  • CMU ARPABET: W IY1 N OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; especially, a drunkard.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: derogatory

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: alcoholic, drunk, alco, alkie, bacchanal, bacchant, barfly, bibber, booze artist, boozehound, boozer, borachio, bouser, carouser, cupster, dipso, dipsomaniac, drinker, drunkard, fuddlecap, fuddler, grog artist, guzzler, inebriate, juicehead, lick-wimble, lush, lusher, maltworm, pisshead, pisspot, plonko, reel-pot, rinse-pitcher, rumpot, shicker, slubberdegullion, soak, soaker, sot, souse, sponge, squeeze-grape, sucker, suck-pint, swill-belly, swill-bowl, swill-flagon, swill-pot, swill-tub, swillking, tippler, toper, tosspot, tun, winebibber, winesop, wino

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; especially, a drunkard.

Such a drunkard who is homeless.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: derogatory, especially

Examples

  • Near-synonyms: bum, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: alcoholic, drunk, alco, alkie, bacchanal, bacchant, barfly, bibber, booze artist, boozehound, boozer, borachio, bouser, carouser, cupster, dipso, dipsomaniac, drinker, drunkard, fuddlecap, fuddler, grog artist, guzzler, inebriate, juicehead, lick-wimble, lush, lusher, maltworm, pisshead, pisspot, plonko, reel-pot, rinse-pitcher, rumpot, shicker, slubberdegullion, soak, soaker, sot, souse, sponge, squeeze-grape, sucker, suck-pint, swill-belly, swill-bowl, swill-flagon, swill-pot, swill-tub, swillking, tippler, toper, tosspot, tun, winebibber, winesop, wino, bum, hobo, stiff, casual, clochard, derelict, dero, down-and-out, down-and-outer, drifter, epithite, floater, gadling, Jack out of doors, knight of the road, landleaper, landloper, landlouper, nomad, paker, palliard, pike, piker, ranger, rogue, rolling stone, rough sleeper, scatterling, skelder, skell, stroller, stumblebum, swagman, swaggie, toerag, tramp, truant, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, waif, yagger

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A wine enthusiast.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: oenophile

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

a chronic drinker

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: drinker, imbiber, toper, juicer

Narrower terms: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weh1y-? Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *wéyh1ōder. Proto-Italic *wīnom Latin vīnumbor. Proto-Germanic *wīną Proto-West Germanic *wīn Old English wīn Middle English wyn English wine English -o English wino From wine + -o (“person with characteristic”).

From W-boson + -ino.

Across languages

Translations

28 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Czech: ožrala — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • French: sac à vin — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • French: alcoolo — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • German: Alki — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • German: Weinsäufer — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • German: Weinsäuferin — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • German: Saufbruder — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • German: Saufschwester — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • German: Wermutpenner — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • German: Wermutpennerin — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • German: Spriti — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • Italian: alcolizzato — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • Italian: spugna — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • Italian: beone — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • Italian: ubriacone — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • Italian: ubriaco — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • Romanian: bețiv — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • Romanian: bețivan — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • Romanian: drojdier — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • Spanish: catavinos — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • Spanish: guaino — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • Spanish: briago — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • Spanish: borrachín — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • Spanish: borracho — alcoholic (pejorative)
  • French: clochard — homeless alcoholic
  • French: clodo — homeless alcoholic
  • Chinese Mandarin: 超W子 — superpartner of the W boson
  • French: wino — superpartner of the W boson