sultana

Everyday

1. A sultana is a dried, light-golden seedless grape, like a raisin but paler and sweeter. tree →
2. A sultana is the wife, mother or daughter of a sultan (a Muslim ruler), or a woman who is a sultan herself. tree →

In the lessons

In food lessons and baking, sultanas go into scones, flapjacks, fruit cake and cereal; a small box of sultanas is a common lunchbox snack in the UK, Australia and NZ. In the USA, sultanas are usually called "golden raisins". In history, sultanas lived in the courts of the Ottoman Empire and other sultanates.

Examples

• I put sultanas in my porridge. tree →
• Gran's fruit scones are full of sultanas. tree →
• A small box of sultanas is a healthy snack. tree →
• In the USA, sultanas are called golden raisins. tree →
• The sultana lived in a beautiful palace. tree →
• Count the sultanas in each muffin. tree →
• Sultanas are dried grapes. tree →
• You would have made a far better Sultana than she." tree →

Note

Countable: sultanas. Raisins are usually darker; currants are tiny dried grapes. Sultanas and raisins are bad for dogs — never feed them to pets.