Added 9 October 2026
champagne
/ʃæmˈpeɪn/ noun
Latin root: campānia Wiktionary
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about champagne at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- A white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there.
- A region of northeastern France.
Origin
Borrowed from French champagne (“sparkling wine from the Champagne region”), from Champagne (“region and former province of France”), from Late Latin campānia (in full Campānia Rēmēnsis), from campāneus (“of or pertaining to the fields”), from Latin campus (“level ground; field, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”). The English word is a doublet of campagna (“flat stretch of countryside”) (dated), campaign, and campania.
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