basket

English

Etymology

From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Common Brittonic, from Proto-Celtic *baski (“bundle, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

A tray and three wicker baskets.

basket (plural baskets)

  1. A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
    A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
  2. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
  3. In an online shop, a notional place to store items before ordering them.
  4. (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
    The point guard drove toward the basket.
  5. (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
    The last-second basket sealed the victory.
  6. The game of basketball.
    Let's play some basket.
  7. A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the mens' shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
  8. (Britain, slang) The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.
  9. (obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
    • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
      In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket.
  10. (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
    1. A singlestick with a basket hilt.
  11. (ballooning) Where the pilot and passengers are.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
  12. (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)
  13. (informal) Euphemism for bastard.
    Wait till I catch you, you little basket!

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See also

Verb

basket (third-person singular simple present baskets, present participle basketing, simple past and past participle basketed)

  1. To place in a basket or in baskets.

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Common Brittonic, from Proto-Celtic *baski (“bundle, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”).

Noun

basket

  1. a basket

Verb

basket

  1. to play basketball

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:basket.

Danish

Etymology

Short for basketball, from English.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baːskət/, [ˈb̥ɑːsɡ̊əb̥]

Noun

basket c (indeclinable)

  1. basketball (the sport)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bas.kɛt/

Etymology 1

From American English basketball.

Noun

basket m (plural basket)

  1. basketball

Etymology 2

basketball shoes

Noun

basket f (plural baskets)

  1. (Europe, especially in plural) sneaker, trainer (UK)
    On y va dès que tout le monde a fini de mettre ses baskets.
    We'll go once everyone has put on their sneakers.
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Italian

Noun

basket m (invariable)

  1. basketball

Spanish

Noun

basket m (uncountable)

  1. basketball (sport)

Swedish

Noun

basket c (uncountable)

  1. basketball

Declension

Declension of basket 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative basket basketen — —
Genitive baskets basketens — —

Synonyms

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English basket.

Noun

basket

  1. basket

Turkish

Etymology

From English basket.

Noun

basket (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

  1. basket (basketball: act of putting the ball through the basket)
  2. basketball (the sport)

Derived terms

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