champagne
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
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 stretch of countryside”) (dated), campaign, and campania.
Inflected forms:
form: champagnes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Champagne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: champagnes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: champagning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: champagned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: champagned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sparkling white wine made from a blend of grapes, especially Chardonnay and pinot, produced in Champagne, France, by the méthode champenoise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We suppose that this author has done his best to be satirical; and he may have thought that his subject would have inspired him with all that was smart and piquant: but the plain truth is that the promised champagne turns out to be vapid small beer.
"[…] That stuff on the table may be a vehicle for filberts and walnuts, but not for such communications as yours. —Bring me champaigne," he said to the attendant who answered on his summons. The domestic returned, and brought a flask of champaigne, with two large silver cups.
[T]he women will wear cashmeres, and then men will drink champagne.
Champagne wine, with its amber hue, it éclat, its sparkle, and its perfume, arouses the senses and produces a cheerfulness which flashes through the company like a spark of electricity. At the magic word, Champagne! the guests, dull and torpid with good feeding, awake at once.
The principal difference between champagnes and sparkling hocks designed for the English market consists in the former being made almost exclusively from red grapes, pressed immediately they are gathered, and not allowed to ferment in their skins, while the latter are made from white grapes alone. The finest champagnes come from the pineau noir, or black Burgundy grape, while the best sparkling hocks are made from the Riesling, […]
Served throughout the meal are sherries, red wines, champagnes, and brandies.
As with a solo cello, a single-vineyard champagne highlights the virtuosity of the performer (whether it's the producer or the site). A vintage champagne demonstrates the singular personality of the year, while a great blended champagne such as Krug's Grand Cuvée expresses a multifaceted, encompassing experience akin to the London Symphony Orchestra playing [Pyotr Ilyich] Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 6, leveraging its components to create something larger than each of them represents individually.
gloss: Any sparkling wine made by the méthode champenoise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: I’ve been saving an excellent Brazilian champagne for a special occasion.
Of the Reims mountain wines, those of Verzi, Verzenay, Mailli, Bouzy, and St. Basle, are most esteemed; but the Clos St. Thierry furnishes perhaps the finest red Champagne. The name Jolly champagne, under which, at present, a large quantity of the best champagne is sold in the U[nited] States, does not originate from a place in Champagne, but from an owner of extensive vineyards in that province, who exports much champagne to the U. States.
Great Western Champagne […] Produced by the old French slow method of fermentation in the bottle taking from six to seven years of time. Great Western is the Only American Champagne ever awarded a Gold Medal at Foreign Expositions. […] Oldest and largest producers of Champagne in America.
gloss: Any sparkling white wine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: A glass of champagne.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: "I'm not scared of needles, but I certainly don’t like them," she says. "I had a champagne en route to the clinic – maybe two – which I'd probably not recommended, but whatever works, right?[…]"
gloss: A very pale brownish-gold colour, similar to that of champagne.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Suede Leather Hat, in gray, champagne, rose or blue, flower-trimmed.
gloss: (An ordinary occupying) the base of the shield, either flat-topped (like the chief at the top of the shield) or curved (as in a mount or trimount).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Alternative forms: champaine, champain
Two rows of Vair, on a champagne gules an open crown or (both 2 and 3 for CRONBERG).
[…] on a champagne in base gules a wyvern, wings expanded or (for Vandalia); on the centre of the cross a quartered shield:[…]
gloss: To ply or treat with champagne.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And equally, the central matter of Henry's infidelities has no actual dramatisation, so that we never see him coming out of a stage door with a Follies girl on his arm, or champagning a debutante, let alone entering a boudoir.
gloss: To drink champagne.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We clareted and champagned till two—then supped, and finished with a kind of regency punch composed of madeira, brandy, and green tea, no real water being admitted therein.
On one occasion, I was at a meeting of the turf in an hotel after the races, where violent discussions and heavy champagning were going on.
Synonyms: bubbly
champ
champers
fizz
shampoo
sham
poo
shammy
Related words: black velvet
brut
buck's fizz
cold duck
demi-sec
doux
May wine
mimosa
sabrage
Salmanazar
sec
sparkling wine
Derived words: champagne breakfast
champagne bucket
champagne cocktail
champagne cola
champagne confetti
champagne coupe
champagne flute
champagne girl
champagne glass
champagneless
champagnelike
champagne lounge
champagne mango
champagne music
champagne pink
champagne powder
champagne problem
champagne room
champagne socialism
champagne socialist
champagne soda
champagne stirrer
champagne tap
champagne taste on a beer billfold
champagne taste on a beer budget
champagne taste on a beer pocketbook
champagne taste on a beer salary
champagne taste on a beer wallet
champagne vinegar
champagne whisk
champagney
champagnize
champansky
fine champagne
Jewish champagne
Lurgan champagne
Saudi champagne
Spanish champagne
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: shampanjë
lang: Arabic
word: شَمْبَانْيَا
roman: šambānyā
lang: Aragonese
word: champán
lang: Armenian
word: շամպայն
roman: šampayn
lang: Asturian
word: xampán
lang: Azerbaijani
word: şampan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: şampan şərabı
lang: Basque
word: xanpaina
lang: Belarusian
word: шампа́нскае
roman: šampánskaje
lang: Bengali
word: শ্যাম্পেন
roman: śêmpen
lang: Bulgarian
word: шампа́нско
roman: šampánsko
lang: Burmese
word: ရှမ်ပိန်
roman: hrampin
lang: Catalan
word: xampany
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 香檳 /香槟
roman: hoeng¹ ban¹
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 香檳 /香槟
roman: hiông-pîn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 香檳酒 /香槟酒
roman: xiāngbīnjiǔ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 香檳 /香槟
roman: xiāngbīn
lang: Chuvash
word: шампанское
roman: šamp̬anskoe
lang: Czech
word: šampaňské
lang: Danish
word: champagne
lang: Dutch
word: champagne
lang: Esperanto
word: ĉampano
lang: Estonian
word: šampanja
lang: Estonian
word: šampus
lang: Faroese
word: sjampanja
lang: Finnish
word: samppanja
lang: French
word: champagne
lang: Galician
word: champaña
lang: Georgian
word: შამპანური
roman: šamṗanuri
lang: German
word: Champagner
lang: German
word: Champagnerwein
lang: German
word: Sekt
lang: Greek
word: σαμπάνια
roman: sampánia
lang: Gujarati
word: શેમ્પેન
roman: śempen
lang: Hebrew
word: שַׁמְפַּנְיָה
roman: sham'panía
lang: Hindi
word: शैंपेन
roman: śa͠ipen
lang: Hungarian
word: pezsgő
lang: Icelandic
word: kampavín
lang: Indonesian
word: sampanye
lang: Irish
word: seaimpéin
lang: Italian
word: champagne
lang: Italian
word: sciampagna
lang: Japanese
word: シャンパン
roman: shanpan
lang: Japanese
word: シャンペン
roman: shanpen
lang: Kazakh
word: шампан
roman: şampan
lang: Kazakh
word: шампан шарабы
roman: şampan şaraby
lang: Kazakh
word: аққайнар
roman: aqqainar
lang: Khmer
word: សំប៉ាញ
roman: sɑmpaañ
lang: Korean
word: 샴페인
roman: syampein
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: şampanya
lang: Kyrgyz
word: шампан
roman: şampan
lang: Kyrgyz
word: шампанское
roman: şampanskoye
lang: Latvian
word: šampanietis
lang: Lithuanian
word: šampanas
lang: Macedonian
word: шампањ
roman: šampanj
lang: Malay
word: champagne
lang: Malayalam
word: ഷാംപെയ്ൻ
roman: ṣāmpeyṉ
lang: Māori
word: hāmupeina
lang: Mongolian
word: шампанск
roman: šampansk
lang: Mongolian
word: шянбинь
roman: šjanbinʹ
lang: Norman
word: champangne
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: champagne
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sjampanje
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: champagne
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: sjampanje
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: шампанєц
roman: šampanjec
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: шампаньске
roman: šampanʹske
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: шампань
roman: šampanʹ
lang: Pashto
word: شامپاين
roman: šāmpāyn
lang: Persian
word: شامپاین
roman: šâmpâyn
lang: Polish
word: szampan
lang: Portuguese
word: champanhe
lang: Portuguese
word: champanha
lang: Portuguese
word: champagne
lang: Punjabi
word: ਸ਼ੈਮਪੇਨ
roman: śaimpen
lang: Romanian
word: șampanie
lang: Russian
word: шампа́нское
roman: šampánskoje
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: шампа́њац
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: šampánjac
lang: Slovak
word: šampanské
lang: Slovene
word: šampanjec
lang: Spanish
word: champaña
lang: Spanish
word: champán
lang: Swahili
word: shampeni
lang: Swedish
word: champagne
lang: Tagalog
word: tsampan
lang: Tajik
word: маи шампан
roman: ma-yi šampan
lang: Tajik
word: шампан
roman: šampan
lang: Tatar
word: шампан
roman: şampan
lang: Thai
word: แชมเปญ
roman: chɛɛm-bpeen
lang: Tibetan
word: ཤམ་ཕེན་ཆང་
roman: sham phen chang
lang: Turkish
word: şampanya
lang: Turkmen
word: şampan
lang: Ukrainian
word: шампа́нське
roman: šampánsʹke
lang: Urdu
word: شیمپین
roman: śaimpen
lang: Uyghur
word: شامپان
roman: shampan
lang: Uzbek
word: shampan
lang: Uzbek
word: shampan vinosi
lang: Uzbek
word: shampanskiy
lang: Vietnamese
word: sâm banh
lang: Volapük
word: Jampänavin
lang: Welsh
word: siampaen
lang: Yiddish
word: שאַמפּאַניער
roman: shampanyer