basket

Meaning of basket

noun
  1. a container used to hold or carry things, typically made from interwoven strips of cane or wire.
    a shopping basket
    she dropped the letter into the waste-paper basket
    a laundry basket
  2. a net fixed on a hoop used as the goal.
  3. euphemism for bastard (sense 1 of the noun).
    you silly basket

Middle English: from Old French basket, of unknown ultimate origin.

Information about basket

Hyphenation of basket

bas-ket

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • basket is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

basket synonyms

Meaning handbasket:

handbasket

Meaning basketful:

basketful

Meaning basketball hoop:

hoop

Meaning a hollow object used to contain something:

receptacle

Meaning an object for holding or transporting something:

container

Meaning a device or implement for holding something:

holder

Meaning a ship or large boat:

vessel

Meaning a container with a flat base and sides, typically square or rectangular and having a lid:

box

Meaning an instance of a particular situation; an example of something occurring:

case

Meaning a basket with a carrying handle and a hinged lid, used for food, cutlery, and plates on a picnic:

hamper

Meaning a large wicker basket for holding fish:

creel

Meaning a basket, especially one of a pair carried by a beast of burden:

pannier

Meaning a small light basket or other container for fruit or vegetables:

punnet

Meaning a shallow oblong basket made of strips of wood, traditionally used for carrying garden flowers and produce:

trug

Translation of basket

Anagrams of basket

betask

Words that rhyme with basket

sket, Tonasket, breadbasket, bushelbasket, casket, clothesbasket, disjasket, flasket, gasket, handbasket, lasket, litterbasket, recasket, unbasket, washbasket, wastebasket, workbasket, forjesket, brisket, frisket, whisket, wisket, bosket, busket, musket

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