brandywine

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/ˈbɹændiwaɪn/

noun

Brandy.

OriginDutch brandewijn →
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Meanings

brandywine1

nounbrandywine (countable and uncountable, plural brandywines)

plural brandywines

  1. archaiccountableuncountableBrandy.

    Socks dipt in Brandy-wine, and worn, are preventive.

    1676, Richard Wiseman, “Of Tumours: Of Pernio”, in Eight Chirurgical Treatises, Book I, Ch. XIII
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    Running round the woodlump if you chance to find Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine, Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play. Put the brishwood back again—and they'll be gone next day!

    1906, Rudyard Kipling, A Smuggler's Song

Brandywine2

proper noun
  1. A river or place in the United States:
    1. A stream in Pennsylvania and Delaware (variously called the Brandywine Creek, the Brandywine River, and often just the Brandywine); the Battle of Brandywine was fought along its banks.
    2. A township in Hancock County, Indiana.
    3. A township in Shelby County, Indiana.
    4. A census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland.
    5. An unincorporated community in Summit County, Ohio.
    6. A census-designated place in Pendleton County, West Virginia.

Brandywine3

nounBrandywine (plural Brandywines)

plural Brandywines

  1. An heirloom cultivar of tomato with large potato-leaved foliage and large pink fruit.

Origin

brandywine · noun

  1. Dutchbrandewijn
  2. Englishbrandywine

Borrowed from Dutch brandewijn. Doublet of brännvin.

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Brandywine · proper noun

Not known with certainty; so named since the 17th century; several long-held hypotheses exist, including a story of casks of brandywine that were spilled in the river's mouth in the colonial era, a fancied resemblance of the turbid water's color to that of brandywine, and an early Euro-American settler whose surname was similar to brandewijn or brandywine.

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Brandywine · noun

Unknown; the plant variety has been traced back far into the 19th century by seed savers, but the origin of its name is lost; speculations include the possibility that the fruit's color was likened to that of brandywine, or that the variety was bred in the Brandywine Valley.

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APA

brandywine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brandywine

MLA

“brandywine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brandywine. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “brandywine,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brandywine.

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