basket

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A container, usually made of woven material, used to hold or carry things.

   She filled the basket with fresh bread and fruit.

2. 2
   noun

   The round net hoop you throw the ball through in basketball.

   He threw the ball straight into the basket.

3. 3
   noun

   A successful throw through the hoop that scores points in basketball.

   Her last-second basket won the game.

Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *baskis Proto-Brythonicder. Late Latin bascauda Anglo-Norman bascatbor. Middle English basket English basket From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman baschet, basket, bascat, of obscure origin. Displaced native Old English mand. 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,…

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