Noun: raisin
| Singular | raisin |
| Plural | raisins |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
Nouns inflected like raisin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
raysyn', Latin Nouns '
racēmus'.
Verbs referencing "raisin"
German Nouns
Rosine.