Raisin Meaning
/ˈɹeɪzən/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA dried grape.
verbOf fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.
Sentence Examples
Good day! I would like two baguettes and two raisin rolls.
A raisin is a dried grape.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The baker put a handful of ____ into the cookie dough for flavor.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She added a handful of ____ to the oatmeal cookie dough for extra sweetness and texture.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Some of the fruit had turned black and shrunken — becoming, effectively, absurdly high-cost raisins."
— 2021 July 18, Christopher Flavelle, “Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
"Second-crop fruit tends to show smaller clusters than first-crop, to have a high skin-to-juice ratio, and to be a good blending tool, according to Iantosca, although care must be exercised to ensure that the second-crop berries have not raisined."
— 2008, John Winthrop Haeger, Pacific Pinot Noir:
"The ultraripe grapes are usually dried in the sun for a few days so they can raisin and their sugars can be concentrated before they are crushed and pressed."
— 2010, Michael Gibson, The Sommelier Prep Course, page 214:
"Too much water and the taste would be too thin. Too little and the grapes would raisin."
— 2019, Sinclair Jayne, A Bride for the Texas Cowboy:
"We must have put down about thirty quart bottles, richly raisined and tightly corked."
— 2005, Alan King, Matzo Balls for Breakfast, page 183:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The baker put a handful of ____ into the cookie dough for flavor.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She added a handful of ____ to the oatmeal cookie dough for extra sweetness and texture.