adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A wine from the area around the Rhine. uncountable

   "He insists on drinking Rhenish from a stein!"

2. 2
   any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (‘hock’ is British usage) wordnet
3. 3
   The linguistic varieties spoken in the Rhineland, a continuum between traditional dialects and regional forms of Standard German. uncountable

Adjective

1. 1
   Pertaining to wine produced in the Rhine region.
2. 2
   Pertaining to the Rhine river or region.

Adjective

1. 1
   of or relating to the Rhine River and the lands adjacent to it wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

hockrhenanerhenianrhenianrhenicrhine wine

Example

More examples

"He insists on drinking Rhenish from a stein!"

Etymology

From Rhine + -ish (with the first element taking a Latinate form; see Rhēnus).

Related phrases

Low RhenishRhenish fan

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.