jeroboam
IPA: dʒɛrʌbˈoʊʌm
Root Word: Jeroboam
noun
- First king of the Kingdom of Israel.
- A bottle of champagne or Burgundy wine containing 3 liters of fluid, four times the volume of a standard bottle.
- A bottle of Bordeaux wine containing 4.5 liters of fluid, six times the volume of a standard bottle.
- Alternative letter-case form of Jeroboam: a very large wine bottle. [First king of the Kingdom of Israel.]
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Examples of "jeroboam" in Sentences
- He was the son and successor of Jeroboam.
- The play focuses on the figure of Jeroboam.
- Jeroboam is depicted unfavorably in the Bible.
- Abijah wages a major battle against King Jeroboam.
- Jeroboam also appoints non Levites to the priesthood.
- Jeroboam II ruled in the north and Uzziah in the south.
- He had reached for the jeroboam, but jerked his hand away.
- The jeroboam meant one kept on pouring from an open vessel.
- A Bordeaux wine bottle with this volume would be called a Jeroboam.
- These acts became known as the way of Jeroboam or the sins of Jeroboam.
- These acts became known as the way of Jeroboam or the errors of Jeroboam.
- Jeroboam and the people promised their loyalty in return for lesser burdens.
- McEwan received the hog – and a jeroboam of champagne – as a prize for comic writing in his latest novel, "Solar."
- The prize is a collection of PG Wodehouse novels, a jeroboam of champagne and the honour of naming a Gloucester Spot pig.
- The jeroboam of 1976 Bollinger La Grande Année we drank for our millennium celebration was the best Champagne we've ever had.
- Years ago, we imagine someone told some friends that it would be infanticide to open their prized jeroboam, the equivalent of four regular-size bottles.
- (You can go higher, too: Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild goes for around $220, while a jeroboam -- a six-liter bottle -- of Taittinger champagne is $600 plus.)
- A friend who attended one of Fry and Laurie's parties in the north London home they shared remembers champagne poured from a jeroboam, while the hosts exchanged bons mots with Kate Bush.
- Between these two extremes is a growing variety of delicious wines sold in large-format bottles by wineries world-wide, and available at a range of affordable price levels, from a €35 magnum of Jordan Cabernet Sauvignon 2001 from Stellenbosch, South Africa, to a €190 jeroboam (or three-liter) bottle of Domaine Pegau Châteauneuf du Pape 2004.
- He brought with him from New York a crock of mustard, a jeroboam of champagne, cocktail napkins with a picture of a plane flying over a building on them, twenty egret feathers “You cannot get them anymore—strictly illegal,” Tucker whispered to me, and, under his black cowboy hat with the rhinestone-studded chin strap, a toy frog that hopped when wound.