basket
pronunciation
How to pronounce basket in British English:
UK [ˈbɑːskɪt]
How to pronounce basket in American English:
US [ˈbæskɪt]
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- Noun:
- a container that is usually woven and has handles
- the quantity contained in a basket
- horizontal hoop with a net through which players try to throw the basketball
- a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop
Word Origin
- basket
- basket: [13] Basket is something of a mystery word. It turns up in the 13th century in Old French and Anglo-Norman as basket and in Anglo-Latin as baskettum, but how it got there is far from clear. Some have suggested that Latin bascauda ‘washing tub’, said by the Roman writer Martial to be of British origin (and thought by some etymologists to be possibly of Celtic origin), may be connected with it in some way, but no conclusive proof of this has ever been found.
- basket (n.)
- early 13c., from Anglo-French bascat, origin obscure despite much speculation. On one theory from Latin bascauda "kettle, table-vessel," said by the Roman poet Martial to be from Celtic British and perhaps cognate with Latin fascis "bundle, faggot," in which case it probably originally meant "wicker basket." But OED frowns on this, and there is no evidence of such a word in Celtic unless later words in Irish and Welsh, counted as borrowings from English, are original.
Example
- 1. Eg. he squatted down to peep into the basket .
- 2. In which direction do I pass the bread basket ?
- 3. Have one laundry basket for clean clothes - just one !
- 4. I put my basket on top .
- 5. The basket looks like a treasure chest .