0 an expensive white or pink fizzy (= with bubbles) wine made in the Champagne area of Eastern France, or, more generally, any similar wine. Champagne is often drunk to celebrate something:
1 a pale yellow or pink, bubbly wine made in France, or a similar wine from somewhere else:
I could hear the champagne fizz as he poured it into my glass.
You can take it as a given that there will be champagne at the wedding.
At just under eight (hectic) minutes, it fizzes and crackles like champagne with fireworks and is something of a cross between exuberant overture and concertino.
His schemes are exposed as hollow, his inclinations - towards feasts of looted mock-turtle soup, champagne and cigars - as gluttonous and cowardly.
He pours the remaining champagne on the floor.
