RAISIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raisin mean? 

• RAISIN (noun)
  The noun RAISIN has 1 sense:

1. dried grape

  Familiarity information: RAISIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAISIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dried grape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("raisin" is a kind of...):

dried fruit (fruit preserved by drying)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "raisin"):

seedless raisin; sultana (dried seedless grape)

seeded raisin (seeded grape that has been dried)

currant (small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking)

 Context examples 

Jo frowned upon that piece of extravagance, and asked why he didn't buy a frail of dates, a cask of raisins, and a bag of almonds, and be done with it?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was a stout pale pudding, heavy and flabby, and with great flat raisins in it, stuck in whole at wide distances apart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Foraging about, I found a bottle with some brandy left, for Hands; and for myself I routed out some biscuit, some pickled fruits, a great bunch of raisins, and a piece of cheese.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The study shows how the consumption of the cereal-based bread, which contains a variety of flours (wheat, oats, and spelt) and contains 22% dried fruit (figs, apricots, raisins), sates the appetite more than standard breads and alleviates hunger in healthy adults.

(Researchers reveal potential of bread that suppresses appetite, University of Granada)

Then we'll go and eat up all the raisins.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I found them all three seated round the table, a bottle of Spanish wine and some raisins before them, and the doctor smoking away, with his wig on his lap, and that, I knew, was a sign that he was agitated.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"No more raisins, Demi. They'll make you sick," says Mamma to the young person who offers his services in the kitchen with unfailing regularity on plum-pudding day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And they made me sit down at table beside them, poured me out a glass of wine, filled my hands with raisins, and all three, one after the other, and each with a bow, drank my good health, and their service to me, for my luck and courage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Everything turned out well, which was a mercy, Hannah said, For my mind was that flustered, Mum, that it's a merrycle I didn't roast the pudding, and stuff the turkey with raisins, let alone bilin' of it in a cloth.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)