Other forms: vineyards
A vineyard is a field planted with vines for making wine. A hillside vineyard, walk the vineyard, the family vineyard.
Poor soil makes better wine than rich, because a struggling vine puts its effort into fruit rather than leaves. Slope and aspect matter as much as latitude. Note that the compound is vine plus yard, and the older English word was wineyard.
1nounvineyardA field planted with vines for wine.
“We toured a vineyard in France and tasted the wine made from its grapes.”
vineyard is a field.
Vine plus yard, from Old English wingeard, a wine yard. The vine part came from French and replaced the older win-.
Middle English
vyneȝerd
English, today
vineyard
Equivalent to vine + yard; from Middle English vyneȝerd (circa 1300), following earlier Old English wīnġeard (“wine yard, vine yard”), with vine (from Old French vigne (“vine, vineyard”), from Latin vīnea) replacing native Old English wīn (“wine, vine”). The earlier wīnġeard may have had the sense of “vine” already, with /w/ → /v/ facilitated by common v-/w- interchange. Compare Dutch wijngaard literally “wine garden” and German Weingarten alongside contracted Wingert. (gaard, Garten are cognate to English yard.)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA