raisin

CEFRA2

/ˈɹeɪzən/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A dried grape.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.

Examples

  • Good day! I would like two baguettes and two raisin rolls.

  • A raisin is a dried grape.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈɹiːzən/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

  1. To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To add raisins to.

  2. To shrivel.

More examples

In context

  • Some of the fruit had turned black and shrunken — becoming, effectively, absurdly high-cost raisins.

  • If my heart didn't make a new friend soon, it would raisin and then petrify.

  • Of sweets there are halvás of all kinds from the sweet-smalling tar-halwa raisined and saffroned to the coarse malídah or powdered sweetbread.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English raysyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reysin (“grape, raisin”), from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Possibly a distant cognate of Persian رز (raz, “vine”). Doublet of raceme.