raisin
/ˈɹeɪzən/
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obsolete/ˈɹiːzən/
raisin noun: a dried grape.
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Noun
raisin (plural raisins)
- A dried grape.
- 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
Verb
raisin (third-person singular simple present raisins, present participle raisining, simple past and past participle raisined)
- Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.
- 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
- To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.
- We must have put down about thirty quart bottles, richly raisined and tightly corked.2005, Alan King, Matzo Balls for Breakfast, page 183
- The 12-year-old Redbreast is the most easily found and shows single pot still at its most defiant: oily and rich with stewed plums, light leather, creme caramel and a dense, raisined palate where the tongue tries to cleave through the white peaches.2014, Dave Broom, Whisky: The Manual
- To add raisins to.
- Of sweets there are halvás of all kinds from the sweet-smalling tar-halwa raisined and saffroned to the coarse malídah or powdered sweetbread.1899, Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, volume 9, number 2, page 150
- Her nicest one is sweetened with sugar, then spiced, buttered, egged, and raisined, to be baked for a mere hour and a half because the proportion of meal to milk is so small that the result is more like a thickened custard than a hasty pudding.1986, Betty Harper Fussell, I Hear America Cooking, page 308
- To distribute throughout (with small bits or things), to dot or pepper.
- It was ground out solemnly in the academies, the University, the press, raisined with scholarly arguments quoted from the French physiocrats and positivists, in French, of course.2010, Anita Brenner, The Wind that Swept Mexico
- While Mother raisined our oatmeal with niacin tablets and wheatgermed our milk, Opal baked us sugar cakes and sugar cookies, deep-fried us sugar doughnuts.2011, The Georgia Review - Volume 65, page 219
- To shrivel.
- If my heart didn't make a new friend soon, it would raisin and then petrify.2008, Trey Ellis, Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood
- Beneath a raisined basketball, among nail polish, dead spiders and other junk, I found a faded photograph of Hannah with cropped, spiky red hair and brilliant purple eye shadow painted all the way to her eyebrows.2013, Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- To crush or drain, so that all plumpness and vitality is gone.
- Out in the bean field Shinto was being horribly bullied by horse-flies, and armed with that reflective strip of marker post– still an invaluable humane goad when the sun was in the right position– I raisined four against his loins. Oddly, he seemed to understand why I kept hitting him.2005, Tim Moore, Spanish Steps, page 196
- And shouldn't we be getting out of here before we get, y'know, raisined or something?'2008, Martin Ed Chatterton, The Brain Full of Holes
- To cause to have wrinkles.
- She was a bony woman with hollow cheeks, her skin raisined by years of hard labor in the sun.2012, Anuradha Roy, The Folded Earth, page 18
- Before him, a stoic mother, hands raisined from the scrubbing of clothing and children.2016, Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume Two: Empire Decayed, page 67
- To form wrinkles; to become wrinkled.
- We soaked together in long baths until we raisined, skin pressed to skin .1998, Witness - Volume 12, page 151
- She remained under the spray until the hot water heater ran out and her skin raisined.2016, RaeAnne Thayne, Renegade Father
Proper noun capitalized: Raisin
Raisin (plural Raisins)
- A surname.
raisin meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
raisin in Hindi
- dried grape
- किशमिश kiśmiś, मुनक्का munakkā, दाख dākh
raisin in Tamil
- உலர்ந்த திராட்சை
raisin in Marathi
- raisin
- बेदाणा bedāṇā
raisin in Urdu
- کشمش
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- raisin in Bengali
- কিশমিশ kiśmiś
- raisin in Malayalam
- ഉണക്കമുന്തിരി uṇakkamuntiri, കിസ്മിസ് kismisŭ
- raisin in Punjabi
- ਦਾਖ dākh, ਸੌਗੀ saugī
- raisin in Gujarati
- કિસમિસ kismis
- raisin in Assamese
- কিচমিচ kismis
- raisin in Tagalog
- pasas
- raisin in Arabic
- زَبِيب zabīb, زَبِيبَة zabība
- raisin in Malay
- kismis, anggur kering, zabib
- raisin in Indonesian
- kismis
- raisin in Persian
- کشمش kešmeš, مویز maviz
- raisin in Thai
- เกด gèet
- raisin in Vietnamese
- nho khô
Examples of raisin in a sentence
- Another liquid—perhaps honey, a berry juice, a raisined or herbal wine—could be poured into the large opening and automatically fed into the interior of the vessel.2019, Patrick E. McGovern, Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture, page 177:
- He went then to each customer he had and gave them each a large, sweet, raisined loaf of caky bread.2021, Gertrude Stein, Three Lives:
- I find it helpful to imagine the world as a fullness of varying density, not as a vacuum raisined with corpuscles but as a plenum instead.2019, Stephanie Strickland, Ringing the Changes, page 93:
- My mom and my dad, the way they were before everything happened and their souls raisined and they went bad.2016, Karen Rivers, The Girl in the Well Is Me:
Forms of raisin
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | raisins |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | raisins |
| present participle | raisining |
| past participle | raisined |
| past | raisined |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Raisins |
Origin of raisin
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.
Words formed from raisin
Phrases with raisin
Words that rhyme with raisin
Questions about raisin
- What does raisin mean?
- Raisin means a dried grape.
- What is raisin in Hindi?
- Raisin in Hindi is किशमिश (kiśmiś), मुनक्का (munakkā), दाख (dākh). See Raisin meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use raisin in a sentence?
- Another liquid—perhaps honey, a berry juice, a raisined or herbal wine—could be poured into the large opening and automatically fed into the interior of the vessel.
- What part of speech is raisin?
- Raisin can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce raisin?
- Raisin is pronounced /ˈɹeɪzən/.
- What is the plural of raisin?
- The plural of raisin is raisins.
Words near raisin in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: raisin (page history and authors); Raisin (page history and authors); raisin (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); बेदाणा (Marathi) (page history and authors); raisin (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਦਾਖ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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