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raisin

[ rey-zin ]

noun

  1. a grape of any of various sweet varieties dried in the sun or by artificial means, often used in cooking.
  2. dark purplish blue.


raisin

/ ˈreɪzən /

noun

  1. a dried grape


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Derived Forms

  • ˈraisiny, adjective

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Other Words From

  • raisin·y adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of raisin1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English raisin, reisin, from Old French, from unattested Vulgar Latin racīmus, for Latin racēmus; raceme

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Word History and Origins

Origin of raisin1

C13: from Old French: grape, ultimately from Latin racēmus cluster of grapes; compare Greek rhax berry, grape

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Example Sentences

Amiri Baraka echoed this sentiment 17 years after Raisin premiered—post-Birmingham, post-Medgar, post-Malcolm.

Someone needed to write the “protest plays,” as Hansberry described Raisin.

When Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun, America was shimmering with the stirrings of social agitation.

Raisin has racked up five Tony nominations, including Best Revival of a Play, and Best Direction of a Play.

After the "raisin gliders," soup and a good stiff hoosh, Webb finished his observations while I recorded for him.

They all wore white cotton caps, men an' women; an' they made the caps themselves out of cotton of their own raisin'.

During that period he spent some time at Fresno, California, endeavoring to start a raisin ranch.

The second phase began likewise with a disaster—the needless loss of a thousand men on the Raisin River, near Detroit.

Why, at MacKenzie's raisin' last year he jist went round foamin' like an old boar and nobody dast say a word to him.

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