currant

CEFRB1

/ˈkʌɹənt/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small dried grape or a small red or black berry.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A shrub bearing such fruit.

Examples

  • A currant is smaller than a strawberry.

  • I'm going to buy some currant juice.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.

  2. A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape.

More examples

In context

  • I bought a bottle of black currant syrup today.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

She added a handful of dried blank to the muffin batter for sweetness.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from French raisin de Corinthe (literally “grapes of Corinth, the city in Greece”). Cognate with Dutch krent. Doublet of Corinth.