basket

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
3. (countable, uncountable) A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
4. (Internet, countable, uncountable) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
5. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A set or collection of intangible things.
6. (countable, uncountable) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
7. (countable, uncountable) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
8. (uncountable) The game of basketball.
9. (countable, uncountable) 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.
10. (countable, slang, uncountable) The penis and region surrounding it.
11. (countable, slang, uncountable) The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
12. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
13. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
14. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
15. (countable, uncountable) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
16. (countable, uncountable) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
17. (countable, euphemistic, informal, uncountable) Bastard.
18. (countable, uncountable) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
19. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable) Short for basket of goods

Verb

1. (transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
2. (transitive) 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.

Synonyms

box

📦

handbasket

bag

hamper

basketful

filter

strainer

pannier

cage

bucket

🪣

large basket

hoop

basketball hoop

skep

willy

extractor fan

bin

crate

hood

container

chest

scuttle

packet

dilly bag

bowl

flower-basket

hod

field goal

hand basket

gondola

caddy

bushel

dipper

shake

🫨

satchel

coop

bundle

body

coffer

punnet

briefcase

💼

pot

casket

receptacle

rim

rotor

medium-sized

case

bear

🐻

load

Translations

panier

🧺

Korb

🧺

canasta

🧺

cesto

🧺

καλάθι

cesta

🧺

cesta

🧺

cesto

🧺

corbeille

cesta

🧺

cesto

🧺

korf

🧺

mand

🧺

cestino

🧺

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɑːskɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: basket

Cognate with Breton: baskodenn

Cognate with Latin: fascis

In summary

From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman baschet, basket, 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 purported Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”), but this is now widely viewed as a substrate word for phonetic reasons. Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”) (whence English fasces), Albanian bokshe (“bundle”), Breton bac'h (“bundle, load”), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos) and βάσκιοι (báskioi) (“bundle (of sticks)”); see also faggot (“(originally) bundle of sticks”).