Definition of 'currant'
Word forms: plural currants
2. countable noun
3. See also blackcurrant, redcurrant
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currant in British English
noun
1.
2.
any of several mainly N temperate shrubs of the genus Ribes, esp R. rubrum (redcurrant) and R. nigrum (blackcurrant): family Grossulariaceae
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Word origin
C16: shortened from rayson of Corannte raisin of Corinth
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currant in American English
noun
1.
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Word origin
ME corauns < (reisins of) Coraunce < Anglo-Fr (raisins de) Corauntz, (raisins of) Corinth: orig. imported from Corinth
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currant in American English
(ˈkɜːrənt, ˈkʌr-)
noun
1.
a small seedless raisin, produced chiefly in California and in the Levant, and used in cookery and confectionery
2.
the small, edible, acid, round fruit or berry of certain wild or cultivated shrubs of the genus Ribes
3.
the shrub itself
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[1300–50; shortened from ME raysons of Coraunte raisins of corinth, the port in Greece from which they orig. came]Examples of 'currant' in a sentence
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British English: currant
/ˈkʌrənt/ NOUN
Currants are small dried black grapes, used especially in cakes.
- American English: currant /ˈkɜrənt/
- Arabic: زَبيب
- Brazilian Portuguese: uva passa
- Chinese: 无核葡萄干
- Croatian: ribiz
- Czech: rozinka
- Danish: korend
- Dutch: krent
- European Spanish: pasa
- Finnish: korintti
- French: raisin sec
- German: Korinthe
- Greek: σταφίδα
- Italian: uva sultanina
- Japanese: 小粒の種なし干しブドウ
- Korean: 건포도
- Norwegian: korint
- Polish: rodzynek
- European Portuguese: groselha
- Romanian: stafidă
- Russian: изюм
- Latin American Spanish: grosella
- Swedish: vinbär
- Thai: ลูกเกด, ลูกองุ่นดำแห้ง
- Turkish: kuşüzümü
- Ukrainian: смородина
- Vietnamese: nho khô
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