Definition/Meaning of champagne

• English - Noun: champagne (countable and uncountable, plural champagnes) (countable, uncountable) A sparkling white wine made from a blend of grape s, especially Chardonnay and pinot , produced in Champagne , France , by the méthode champenoise . 1827, Francis Herbert [pseudonym; William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, and Gulian Crommelin Verplanck], “The Legend of the Devil’s Pulpit”, in The Talisman for…
• English - Adjective: champagne (not comparable) (not comparable) Of a very pale brownish - gold colour , similar to that of champagne. 1962 September 14, “The Champagne Blondes, Vintage ’62: (Go On … Live a Little!) [advertisement]”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, volume 53, number 11, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 95: This is the year! With champagne colors the thing on the…
• English - Verb: champagne (third-person singular simple present champagnes, present participle champagning, simple past and past participle champagned) (transitive) To ply or treat with champagne. 1989, Bruce Babington, Peter William Evans, “‘The Love Parade’: Lubitsch and Romantic Comedy”, in Affairs to Remember: The Hollywood Comedy of the Sexes, Manchester; New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN,…
• English - Etymology: Borrowed from French champagne (“sparkling wine from the Champagne region”), from Champagne (“region and former province of France”), from Late Latin campānia (in full Campānia Rēmēnsis ), from campāneus (“of or pertaining to the fields”), from Latin campus (“level ground; field, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”). The English word is a doublet of campagna (“flat…
• English - Pronunciation: (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ʃæmˈpeɪn/ (British, Southern, Standard) IPA: /ʃamˈpɛjn/ (Australia) IPA: /ʃæːmˈpæɪn/ (New Zealand) IPA: /ʃɛmˈpæɪn/ (Scotland) IPA: /ʃamˈpen/ Rhymes: -eɪn