FORTIFIED WINE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Wine to which alcohol (usually grape brandy) has been added

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("fortified wine" is a kind of...):

vino; wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fortified wine"):

Madeira (an amber dessert wine from the Madeira Islands)

port; port wine (sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal)

sherry (dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif)

Marsala (dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily)