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6-letter words (1 found)

BASKET,

5-letter words (16 found)

ABETS,BAKES,BASTE,BATES,BEAKS,BEAST,BEATS,BESAT,BETAS,KETAS,SKATE,STAKE,STEAK,TABES,TAKES,TEAKS,

4-letter words (43 found)

ABET,AKES,ATES,BAES,BAKE,BASE,BASK,BAST,BATE,BATS,BEAK,BEAT,BEST,BETA,BETS,EAST,EATS,ETAS,KABS,KAES,KATS,KEAS,KEBS,KEST,KETA,KETS,SABE,SAKE,SATE,SEAT,SEKT,SETA,SKAT,SKET,STAB,TABS,TAES,TAKE,TAKS,TASE,TASK,TEAK,TEAS,

3-letter words (34 found)

ABS,AKE,ASK,ATE,ATS,BAE,BAS,BAT,BES,BET,EAS,EAT,EST,ETA,KAB,KAE,KAS,KAT,KEA,KEB,KET,SAB,SAE,SAT,SEA,SET,SKA,TAB,TAE,TAK,TAS,TEA,TES,TSK,

2-letter words (13 found)

AB,AE,AS,AT,BA,BE,EA,ES,ET,KA,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 108 words from basket according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of basket

basket

Etymology

From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, of obscure origin.

One theory is that it derives from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Proto-Brythonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”). Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”). Doublet of fasces.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bäsʹkĭt, IPA(key): /ˈbɑːskɪt/
  • (US)
    • (General American) enPR: băsʹkĭt, IPA(key): /ˈbæskɪt/
    • (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈbæskət/
  • (General Australian) enPR: bäsʹkət, IPA(key): /ˈbaːskət/
  • Hyphenation: bas‧ket
  • Rhymes: -æskɪt, -ɑːskɪt

Noun

basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)

  1. A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
    1. (by extension) A bed for a cat.
  2. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
  3. (Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
  4. (figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
    • 2004, Gichinga Ndirangu, Heinrich Böll Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya), An African civil society action toward WTO 2003 (page 16)
      The basket of issues that developing countries had vigorously wanted addressed such as agriculture, SANDD and implementation-related issues were given scant attention by developed countries for most part of the conference.
  5. (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
  6. (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
  7. (uncountable) The game of basketball.
  8. 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 men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
  9. (LGBT, slang) The penis and region surrounding it.
  10. (slang) The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
  11. (obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
  12. (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.
  13. (ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
  14. (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
  15. (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.
    Wait till I catch you, you little basket!
  16. (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
    Don't smoosh the basket.

Synonyms

  • (container used in a shop): cart, shopping basket, shopping cart
  • (storage place for online items): cart, shopping basket, shopping cart
  • (basketball): basketball, hoops
  • (genitals): Thesaurus:male crotch bulge

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • trug

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
  2. (transitive, publishing) To cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.

References

Anagrams

  • bakest

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed 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”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bas‧ket
  • IPA(key): /ˈbasket/, [ˈbas̪.kɪt̪]

Noun

basket

  1. basket

Verb

basket

  1. to play basketball

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:basket.

Danish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

basket c (indeclinable)

  1. basketball (the sport)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English basket.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɑs.kət/, [ˈbɑ(ː)s.kət], /ˈbaːs.kət/
  • Hyphenation: bas‧ket

Noun

basket m (plural baskets)

  1. (basketball) basket (the goal in basketball)

Derived terms

  • basketbal
  • basketter

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bas.kɛt/

Etymology 1

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

Noun

basket m (plural basket)

  1. (colloquial) basketball
    Synonyms: basket-ball, (Canada) ballon-panier

Etymology 2

Noun

basket f (plural baskets)

  1. (Europe, especially in plural) sneaker (US), trainer (UK)
    Synonym: tennis
Synonyms
  • (Quebec): running shoe, running (criticized), espadrille
Derived terms
  • bien dans ses baskets
  • lâcher les basket

Indonesian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bas.ˈkɛt̚/
  • Hyphenation: bas‧kèt

Noun

baskèt (first-person possessive basketku, second-person possessive basketmu, third-person possessive basketnya)

  1. (sports) basketball.
    1. The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
    2. A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.

Synonyms

  • bola keranjang (Standard Malay)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “basket” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈba.sket/
  • Rhymes: -asket
  • Hyphenation: bà‧sket

Noun

basket m (invariable)

  1. basketball
    Synonym: pallacanestro

Derived terms

  • Legabasket

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • baskot

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman bascat, possibly from Late Latin bascauda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaskɛt/, /ˈbaskət/

Noun

basket (plural baskettes)

  1. A basket (a woven container)
  2. (rare) The amount that fits in a basket.

Descendants

  • English: basket
  • Scots: basket
  • Yola: baskaate, baskeat

References

  • “basket, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-14.

Spanish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

Noun

basket m (uncountable)

  1. Misspelling of básket.

Swedish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English basketball.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɑːskɛt/

Noun

basket c (uncountable)

  1. basketball (the sport)
    Synonym: (less common) basketboll

Declension

Synonyms

  • korgboll (dated outside Finland)

See also

  • basketboll (the ball)

Anagrams

  • bakets, tebaks

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English basket.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bas‧ket
  • IPA(key): /ˈbasket/, [ˈbas.kɛt]

Noun

basket (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜃᜒᜆ᜔)

  1. basket
    Synonym: sesta
    Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:basket
    1. shopping basket
    2. wastebasket
    3. (basketball) basket (circular hoop from which a net is suspended)
  2. (slang) rejection; disapproval; nonacceptance (in a submission, courtship, etc.)

Derived terms

Related terms

  • basketbol

Adjective

basket (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜃᜒᜆ᜔)

  1. (slang) disapproved; rejected (in a submission, courtship, etc.)

Further reading

  • “basket”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English basket.

Noun

basket

  1. basket

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English basket.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /basˈcet/
  • Hyphenation: bas‧ket

Noun

basket (definite accusative basketi, plural basketler)

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

Derived terms


Source: wiktionary.org