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"CURRANTS" is a plural of: currant. |
Date "CURRANTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Dried grapes of the varieties Black Corinth(Zanté Currant)und Cape currant. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Dried grapes. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CURRANTS |
| English words defined with "CURRANTS": cane blight, Citric acid, currant, currant bush ♦ dolmas ♦ genus Ribes ♦ Malic acid ♦ Raisin tree, Ribes ♦ Saxifragaceous, spotted dick, Squinancy berries, Stemmy, stuffed grape leaves. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CURRANTS": MINCEMEAT MAKER ♦ Vineyard Controversy. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Junior Red Cross boys and girls of Greece sent a great quantity of currants to the Junior Red Cross children of the United States. Children in Atlanta baked a quantity of cookies, containing the currants, and sent them to the drought regions. Here are boy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Currants" by Krzysztof Baranski Commentary: "Yellow currants ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Azerbaijan | A wide variety of crops are grown in Azerbaijan, such as fruits (apples, cherries, grapes, olives, lemons, persimmons, melons, raspberries, strawberries, currants, plums, peaches, pears, pomegranates and tomatoes), vegetables (potatoes, carrots, beets, cabbage, cucumbers, and onions), grains (wheat, maize, barley), tea leaves, and nuts. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CURRANTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CURRANTS" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 82 | 36,594 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CURRANTS": buck currants ♦ Raisins & Currants ♦ red currants ♦ zante currants. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "CURRANTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 无核小葡萄干 (Currant). (various references) | |
Czech | rybíz (currant, red currants). (various references) | |
German | Johannisbeeren (black currants). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urrantscay.(various references) | |
Sepedi | makwapi a diterebe. (various references) | |
Welsh | cyrains, rhyfon. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"CURRANTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carrans, corratts, corrents, Corrientes, Cuaranty, curant, curants, curent, currans, cutrant, kuranty, Murrant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-n-r-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: currans, currant. | |
-2 letters: cantus, curran, santur. | |
-3 letters: arcus, aunts, canst, cants, carns, carrs, carts, crura, crust, curns, currs, curst, narcs, rants, runts, scant, scart, scaur, scuta, surra, sutra, tarns, trans, tunas, turns. | |
-4 letters: acts, ants, anus, arcs, arts, aunt, cans, cant, carn, carr, cars, cart, cast, cats, crus, curn, curr, curs, curt, cuts, narc. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-n-r-r-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: raconteurs, transducer. | |
+3 letters: contrarious, nurturances, nutcrackers, procrustean, subcontrary, transducers, transuranic, underreacts. | |
+4 letters: carburetions, contractures, corrugations, counterparts, counterraids, furtherances, incurvatures, mercurations, natriuretics, procurations, rubrications, transuranics, unscriptural. | |
+5 letters: antipruritics, counterargues, counterstream, countertrades, curarizations, intramuscular, intravascular, manufacturers, nonstructural, protuberances, recuperations, structuration, subcontractor, subcontraries, superromantic, transcultural, trifurcations, tubocurarines. | |
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