vineyard

/ˈvɪnjərd/

/ˈvɪnjəd/

Other forms: vineyards

If you dream of one day growing grapes and making wine in the South of France, you hope to work at a vineyard, another name for a farm where wine grapes are grown.

The French tradition of wine making is what led English speakers to adopt a French term for "grape plantation," although in South Africa it is called a "wine farm." Around 1300, the Old English term wingeard was replaced with the word vineyard. The trickiest thing about the word is its pronunciation — the first syllable doesn't actually sound like "vine," but instead is pronounced "vin."

Definitions of vineyard

1. noun

   a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced
   synonyms: vinery

   type of:

   farm

   workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit