Meaning & use
vineyards
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“vineyards” is a form of “vineyard”. See that entry for the full set of meanings.
Meaning
nounplural
Areas of land where grapevines are grown, mainly to produce grapes for making wine.
Grammar: Plural form: the vineyards are green in spring.
Patterns
- vineyards in somewhere
- vineyards of somewhere
Rows of vineyards covered the hillside above the village.
We cycled through the vineyards and stopped for a tasting.
Frost damaged several vineyards in the valley last spring.
Word forms
| singular | vineyard |
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Common combinations
- tour the vineyards
- Tourists tour the vineyards each autumn.
- rolling vineyards
- Rolling vineyards stretched to the horizon.
- harvest the vineyards
- Workers harvest the vineyards by hand.
- family-owned vineyards
- They buy wine only from family-owned vineyards.
- vineyards in the region
- The vineyards in the region produce mainly red wine.
Synonyms and how they differ
- wineries
- Wineries are places where wine is made, while vineyards are the fields where the grapes grow.
- vine fields
- Vine fields is a plain description but is rarely used; vineyards is the standard word.
- wine estates
- Wine estates include both the land and the production buildings, a wider idea than vineyards.
Word family
- vineyard noun
- one such planting
- vine noun
- the climbing plant that grapes grow on
- vintner noun
- a wine merchant or wine maker
- viticulture noun
- the cultivation of grapes
Commonly confused: vineyards or winery?
vineyards vs winery
A winery makes and stores wine, whereas a vineyard is only the place where grapes grow.
Practice
Which place would you visit to see grapevines growing in rows?
Choose one answer.
Vineyards are the fields where grapevines are grown. The other places grow different crops.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “vineyards”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.