🇬🇧 Vintage meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Vintage means something is from long ago and is old in a good way—well made, classic, and still awesome today. A vintage thing usually shows the best style from its time, like an old car that still looks cool or an old dress that never goes out of fashion.

Grandpa says his jokes are vintage, which explains why they’re older than our whole house.

Dad’s vintage phone can’t text, can’t take pictures, and probably can’t even spell "internet."

We used a vintage camera, and the picture came out in black and white, just like my mood on Mondays.

My brother found a vintage video game, and the characters were just squares trying their best.

Mom called my dad’s dance moves "vintage," which is a nice way of saying they time-traveled from the 1980s.

An old woman opened a chest and found a vintage dress, a vintage hat, a vintage camera, a vintage watch and a small radio. She touched each piece, the fabric warm, the brass bright. She put on the dress, wound the watch, and softly laughed, comforted by these vintage items.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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