grapevine
noun
grape·vine
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Definition of grapevine
(Entry 1 of 2)
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: grape sense 2
2a
: an informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip
heard it through the grapevine
b
: a secret source of information
Grapevine
geographical name
Grape·vine
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Definition of Grapevine (Entry 2 of 2)
city in northern Texas northeast of Fort Worth population 46,334
Examples of grapevine in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
But a warm summer helped grapevines catch up to a closer-to-average timeline. — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, "An early look at California’s 2019 wine harvest," 29 Aug. 2019 Because before there was Twitter, there was the grapevine. — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, "The Most Achy-Breaky Songs About Cheating," 5 July 2019 These beetles can cause a grade deal of damage to linden and crabapple trees, fruit-bearing trees and grapevines, along with other foliate flora. — USA TODAY, "Leaping frogs, spiny lobsters, hostile roosters: News from around our 50 states," 26 July 2019 Customize with an outdoor kitchen, fruit tree orchard, grapevines or add to the existing lawn and gardens. — Monica Lander, The Mercury News, "Sponsored: Privacy, beauty and a backyard sanctuary can be yours at this Mediterranean-style cul-de-sac home," 16 July 2019 The vines were added by Howard and Mary McCoy, who arrange dry grapevines into seemingly calligraphic gestures. — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, "In the galleries: Pulsating dramas of light and sound," 12 July 2019 Hearing through the grapevine that a railroad was on its way, shopkeeper Andrew Jackson Meyers got a homestead grant of 160-plus acres in the mid 1880s and subdivided the land into the community that would become the city. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Oceanside: One mission, plenty of piers and some famous avocados," 28 June 2019 Art brut was a source of inspiration for the painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet’s own work, which ranged from primitive-looking drawings scratched into impasto to a totemic figure composed only of two unmodified grapevine roots and a block of slag. — Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, "Nicole Rudick," 7 Nov. 2018 To propagate grapevines, farmers often use cuttings from a preferred plant to grow new, genetically identical vines. — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian, "Ancient Grape DNA Tells the Prolific History of Wine," 10 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'grapevine.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for grapevine
grapevine
noun
English Language Learners Definition of grapevine
: a climbing plant on which grapes grow
: an informal way of spreading information or rumors through conversation
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