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CHAMPAGNE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there
Synonyms:
bubbly; champagne
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("champagne" is a kind of...):
sparkling wine (effervescent wine)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A region of northeastern France
Synonyms:
Champagne; Champagne-Ardenne
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
French region (a geographical subdivision of France)
Meronyms (parts of "Champagne"):
Ardennes (a wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II)
Holonyms ("Champagne" is a part of...):
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)
Context examples:
Leo also rules fine imported chocolates, fine wines, champagne and liquors, upscale spas, yachts, private planes, expensive, custom automobiles, castles, condos, and co-ops. You get the idea.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Put the champagne on ice!
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
She had drunk a quantity of champagne and during the course of her song she had decided ineptly that everything was very very sad—she was not only singing, she was weeping too.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
A pair of stage "twins"—who turned out to be the girls in yellow—did a baby act in costume and champagne was served in glasses bigger than finger bowls.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
He was profoundly affected by the fact that Tom was there. But he would be uneasy anyhow until he had given them something, realizing in a vague way that that was all they came for. Mr. Sloane wanted nothing. A lemonade? No, thanks. A little champagne? Nothing at all, thanks. . . . I'm sorry—
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
There were the same people, or at least the same sort of people, the same profusion of champagne, the same many-colored, many-keyed commotion, but I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
