vermouth en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /vəˈmuːθ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /vɚˈmuθ/ (General-American)
- /ˈvɜːməθ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From French vermout, vermouth, from German Wermut (“wormwood”). Doublet of wormwood.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A dry, or sweet apéritif wine flavored with aromatic herbs, and often used in mixed drinks.
Vermouth originated in the 18th century, when wine growers in the foothills of the French and Italian Alps developed a method of enhancing the taste of sour or uncompromising wines with the infusion of a variety of sweeteners, spices, herbs, roots, seeds, flowers, and peel.
2014, Ray Foley, Bartending For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 116:He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind:Earlier this year while in Madrid, I fell prey to what the Spanish call la hora del vermut, the vermouth hour, a break in the day for a glass, generally before eating.
2023 July 20, Eric Asimov, “This Summer, Pause for the Vermouth Hour”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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(countable, uncountable) A serving of vermouth.
As we sat over our vermuths he glorified the Company’s business, and by-and-by I expressed casually my surprise at him not going out there.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| vermouths | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
French vermouth · red vermouth · Italian vermouth · white vermouth · vermouthed
Hypernyms
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Translations (61)
vo vemut (wine infused with herbs) · es vermut (wine infused with herbs) · bg вермут (wine infused with herbs) · eo vermuto (wine infused with herbs) · et vermut (wine infused with herbs) · ca vermut (wine infused with herbs) · el βερμούτ (wine infused with herbs) · hy վերմուտ (wine infused with herbs) · sv vermut (wine infused with herbs) · ar فِيرْمُوت (wine infused with herbs) · tl bermut (wine infused with herbs) · la absinthium (wine infused with herbs) · cv bермут (wine infused with herbs) · uk вермут (wine infused with herbs) · grc ἀψινθίατον (wine infused with herbs) · is vermút (wine infused with herbs) · yi ווערמוט (wine infused with herbs) · nb vermut (wine infused with herbs) · ia vermut (wine infused with herbs) · ko 베르무트 (wine infused with herbs) · eu bermut (wine infused with herbs) · io vermuto (wine infused with herbs) · ru ве́рмут (wine infused with herbs) · grc ἀψινθίτης (wine infused with herbs) · nl vermout (wine infused with herbs) · tr vermut (wine infused with herbs) · arc אפסנתין (wine infused with herbs) · jv vermouth (wine infused with herbs) · be вермут (wine infused with herbs) · de Wermut (wine infused with herbs) · it vermut (wine infused with herbs) · hu ürmösbor (wine infused with herbs) · sk vermut (wine infused with herbs) · lt vermutas (wine infused with herbs) · es vermú (wine infused with herbs) · hu ürmös (wine infused with herbs) · ja ベルモット (wine infused with herbs) · sh vermut (wine infused with herbs) · cmn 味美思 (wine infused with herbs) · grc ἀψίνθιον (wine infused with herbs) · fi vermutti (wine infused with herbs) · cs vermut (wine infused with herbs) · ga fíon mormónta (wine infused with herbs) · ast vermú (wine infused with herbs) · ka ვერმუთი (wine infused with herbs) · ar إِسْفِنْط (wine infused with herbs) · cy fermŵth (wine infused with herbs) · hu vermut (wine infused with herbs) · yue 威末酒 (wine infused with herbs) · mk вермут (wine infused with herbs) · ro vermut (wine infused with herbs) · pt vermute (wine infused with herbs) · he ורמוט (wine infused with herbs) · la absinthiātum (wine infused with herbs) · fa ورموت (wine infused with herbs) · pl wermut (wine infused with herbs) · gl vermú (wine infused with herbs) · th เวอร์มุธ (wine infused with herbs) · arc אפסינתינון (wine infused with herbs) · sv vermouth (wine infused with herbs) · fr vermouth (wine infused with herbs)