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English

Etymology

From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Common Brittonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ask- (“bundle”). Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”). Doublet of fasces.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bäs?k?t, IPA^(key): /?b??sk?t/
• (General American) enPR: b?s?k?t, IPA^(key): /?bæsk?t/
• (General Australian) enPR: bäs?k?t, IPA^(key): /?ba?sk?t/
• Rhymes: -æsk?t, -??sk?t
• Hyphenation: bas?ket

Noun

basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)

1. A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

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. (figuratively) 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 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.
9. (LGBT, slang) The male genitalia and region surrounding it.
10. (slang) The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.
11. (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.

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.
       • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

         Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets.

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.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)

15. (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.

    Wait till I catch you, you little 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

References

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.
   • 1974, Publishers Weekly (volume 206, issues 1-14, page 70)

     Foreign language paperback, serial and book club would be basketed together in a 50/50 subsidiary rights clause.

Anagrams

• bakest

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 *b?ask- (“bundle”).

Noun

basket

1. a basket

Verb

basket

1. to play basketball

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:basket.

Danish

Etymology

Shortening of basketball, from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?sk?t/, [?b???s???d?]

Noun

basket c (indeclinable)

1. basketball (the sport)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English basket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?s.k?t/, [?b?(?)s.k?t], /?ba?s.k?t/
• Hyphenation: bas?ket

Noun

basket m (plural baskets)

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

Derived terms

• basketbal
• basketter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bas.k?t/

Etymology 1

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, trainer (UK)

Synonyms

• (Quebec): running shoe, running (criticized), espadrille
• (Europe): tennis

Derived terms

• bien dans ses baskets
• lâcher les basket

Indonesian

Etymology

From English basketball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bas.?k?t?/
• 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 (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Shortening of English basketball.

Noun

basket m (invariable)

1. basketball

Derived terms

• Legabasket

Middle English

Alternative forms

• baskot

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman bascat, from Late Latin bascauda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bask?t/, /?bask?t/

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

References

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

Spanish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, shortening of English basketball.

Noun

basket m (uncountable)

1. Misspelling of básket.

Swedish

Etymology

Shortening of English basketball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??sk?t/

Noun

basket c (uncountable)

1. basketball

Declension

Synonyms

• korgboll (dated outside Finland)

Anagrams

• bakets, tebaks

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English basket.

Noun

basket

1. basket

Turkish

Etymology

From English basket.

Noun

basket (definite accusative basketi, plural basketler)

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

Derived terms

• basketçi
• basketçilik

English

Alternative forms

• caba

Etymology

French cabas

Noun

cabas

1. A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.
2. A lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or handbag.
   • a. 1847, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, published 1857

     I looked at Frances, she was putting her books into her cabas […]

Anagrams

• AACSB, ASBCA, BCAAs, Bacas, abacs

French

Etymology

From Old Occitan cabas, a word of Iberian origin (compare Catalan cabàs, Old Portuguese cabaz, Spanish copazo and cabás).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.b?/, /ka.ba/

Noun

cabas m (plural cabas)

1. shopping basket

Descendants

• ? English: cabas

Further reading

• “cabas” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).