wineshop

English

A wineshop in Trnava, Slovakia

Etymology

From wine +‎ shop.

Noun

wineshop (plural wineshops)

1. A shop selling wine.
   • 1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 38: Hidden Faces”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 607:

     “The Garden of Silver Breezes was not a garden at all but a huge wineshop, much too large to be called a shop really, atop a hill centered on the Calpene, the westernmost of Tanchico’s three peninsulas below the Great Circle."

2. (India) A liquor store.

Translations

store that sells wine

• Greek:

  Ancient: οἰνοπώλιον n (oinopṓlion)

• Italian: bottiglieria f, osteria (it) f, cantina (it) f, fiaschetteria (it) f, enoteca (it) f, canova f, mescita (it) f, degustazione (it) f, vineria f
• Ottoman Turkish: میخانه (meyhane), شربتخانه (şerbethane)