Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sweet grape dried either in the sun or by artificial means.
- noun A deep brownish purple.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cluster of grapes; also, a grape.
- noun A dried grape of the common Old World species, Vitis vinifera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A grape, or a bunch of grapes.
- noun A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat.
- noun (Bot.), [Eng.] the common red currant bush, whose fruit resembles the small raisins of Corinth called currants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A dried
grape .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun dried grape
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Apparently a raisin is a dried grape (knew that) while a sultana is a seedless raisin (didn't know that - presumably they mean dried seedless grape and not a raisin they've gone to the trouble of taking the seed from) and a currant is a dried seedless grape of a specific variety.
Archive 2006-01-01 Jonathan 2006
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Apparently a raisin is a dried grape (knew that) while a sultana is a seedless raisin (didn't know that - presumably they mean dried seedless grape and not a raisin they've gone to the trouble of taking the seed from) and a currant is a dried seedless grape of a specific variety.
Currant affairs Jonathan 2006
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Sour cream raisin is an old farm recipe in the midwest.
sweet, not savory! | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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You know, there's money in raisin 'horses -- especially the big workhorses that run to eighteen hundred an' two thousand pounds.
CHAPTER II 2010
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On the menu it is referred to as "raisin et cannelle."
Parisian Patisserie's Stateside Landing Marshall Heyman 2011
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Made with Friday's leftover raisin raisin challah, local eggs and honey purchased at the Ballard Farmers Market (from Washington Bees that took a trip to California to pollinate lime, lemon and orange crops).
As seen on my FLICKR 2006
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Made with Friday's leftover raisin raisin challah, local eggs and honey purchased at the Ballard Farmers Market (from Washington Bees that took a trip to California to pollinate lime, lemon and orange crops).
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I had the pork in raisin, prune and apricot sauce and felt it was also quite good.
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Made with Friday's leftover raisin raisin challah, local eggs and honey purchased at the Ballard Farmers Market (from Washington Bees that took a trip to California to pollinate lime, lemon and orange crops).
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Made with Friday's leftover raisin raisin challah, local eggs and honey purchased at the Ballard Farmers Market (from Washington Bees that took a trip to California to pollinate lime, lemon and orange crops).
Seattle Bon Vivant: 2006
oroboros commented on the word raisin
Daffynition: a grape with a sunburn.
January 6, 2007
whichbe commented on the word raisin
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
May 7, 2008
yarb commented on the word raisin
Now you're getting existential on my ass.
May 10, 2008
sionnach commented on the word raisin
Speaking of existentialism, have you ever pondered your raisin d'etre, yarb?
May 10, 2008
yarb commented on the word raisin
No, but thank you for raisin' the point.
May 10, 2008