Definition of currant

• n. - A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.
• n. - The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
• n. - A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.