currant
- Top 10000
Sense 1
- noun
- B2
A very small round berry, red, white or black, that grows in hanging bunches on a garden bush and tastes quite sour.
The children helped pick red currants from the bush behind the house.
These currants are too sour to eat without sugar.
She makes a lovely jelly from black currants every summer.
Common collocations: red currants · black currants · pick currants · currant bush · currant jelly
Part of: Fruit, The garden, Plants
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- B2
A small dried grape, dark and wrinkled, that is added to cakes, buns and other baked food.
Add a handful of currants to the cake mixture and stir well.
The warm buns were full of currants and smelled of cinnamon.
Soak the currants in warm water before you use them.
Common collocations: a handful of currants · currant bun · dried currants · soak the currants
Part of: Bread and grains, Cooking, Sweets
Forms
- plural
- currants