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raisin
[ rey-zin ]
noun
- a grape of any of various sweet varieties dried in the sun or by artificial means, often used in cooking.
- dark purplish blue.
raisin
/ ˈreɪzən /
noun
- a dried grape
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Derived Forms
- ˈraisiny, adjective
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Other Words From
- raisin·y adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of raisin1
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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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