basket

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman bascat, from Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”) from Gaulish word, of unknown earlier origin.

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. (UK, slang) Genitals.
  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.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Terms derived from basket

Translations

container
wire or plastic container for carrying articles for purchase — see shopping basket
notional place to store items before ordering them online
basketball: hoop from which a net is suspended
basketball: act of putting the ball through the basket
in basketball
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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.
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Danish

Etymology

Short for basketball, from English.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /baːskət/, [ˈb̥ɑːsɡ̊əb̥]

Noun

basket c

  1. basketball (the sport)
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French

Etymology 1

From American English basketball.

Noun

basket m (plural basket)

  1. basketball

Etymology 2

basketball shoes

Noun

basket f (plural baskets)

  1. (Europe) sneakers, trainers (UK)
    On y va dès que tout le monde a fini de mettre ses baskets.
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Italian

Noun

basket m (invariable)

  1. basketball
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Swedish

Noun

basket c (uncountable)

  1. basketball

Declension

Declension of basket
uncountable uncountable
Common indefinite definite
nominative basket basketen
genitive baskets basketens

Synonyms

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Turkish

Etymology

From English basket.

Noun

basket

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

Derived terms

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