fortified wine

English

Noun

fortified wine (countable and uncountable, plural fortified wines)

1. A wine to which additional ethanol (an alcohol) has been added, the most common additive being brandy (a spirit distilled from wine).

Synonyms

• liqueur wine (in Europe)

Hypernyms

• dessert wine

Coordinate terms

• Marsala
• Madeira
• sherry

Related terms

• bum wine
• wino wine

Translations

wine with distilled beverage added

• French: vin muté m
• Galician: viño xeneroso (gl) m
• German: verstärkter Wein m, Likörwein (de) m
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• Russian: креплёное вино́ (ru) n (krepljónoje vinó)
• Swedish: starkvin n