Home › Words › C › currantcurrant/ˈkʌɹənt/currant means A surname from Old French.currant is pronounced /ˈkʌɹənt/.EtymologyAnglicized form of Old French courant, present participle of courir (“to run”), hence a nickname for a hunter.nameA surname from Old French.nounA small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape.The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.A shrub bearing such fruit.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.corinth 80% match — A small fruit; a currant. vs currant →currantlike 73% match — Resembling or characteristic of a currant. vs currant →curranty 70% match — Resembling or characteristic of currants. vs currant →blackcurrant 68% match — A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries. vs currant →vostizza 65% match — A kind of currant from Greece. vs currant →cassis 64% match — A blackcurrant plant (Ribes nigrum); the flavor of its berries. vs currant →grapelet 62% match — A little grape. vs currant →craisin 61% match — A dried cranberry. vs currant →