bucket

A1 Topic:General Vocabulary

US /ˈbʌk.ət/ UK /ˈbʌkɪt/ See IPA manual

Freq #4028

Meanings

1

noun
An open container with a handle, used for carrying liquids or other things

I filled a bucket with water to wash the car.
2

noun
The amount that a bucket holds

The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
3

noun
A large amount of something

It rained buckets all weekend.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · an open container with a... pail

Word family

Forms bucketedbucketingbuckets

Derived forms bit-bucketblucketbrain-bucketbucket-headbucketballbucketeerbucketerbucketfulbucketizebucketlessbucketlikebucketload

Related forms barrel keg pail tub

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Phrases (1)

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bucket seat
a shaped seat designed to hold one person separately in a vehicle

Noun + noun

Idioms (1)

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kick the bucket
to die

Etymology

From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

buket Middle English bucc Old English buc Old French *būcus la-vul *būk frk *būkaz Proto-Germanic

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# bucket

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈbʌk.ət/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈbʌkɪt/
**Frequency rank:** 4028

## Meanings
1. An open container with a handle, used for carrying liquids or other things
2. The amount that a bucket holds
3. A large amount of something

## Examples
- I filled a bucket with water to wash the car.
- The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
- It rained buckets all weekend.

## Derived Forms
- bit-bucket
- blucket
- brain-bucket
- bucket-head
- bucketball
- bucketeer
- bucketer
- bucketful
- bucketize
- bucketless
- bucketlike
- bucketload

## Related Forms
- barrel
- keg
- pail
- tub

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: buket
- Root: bucc
- Root: buc
- Root: *būcus
- Root: *būk
- Root: *būkaz

## Etymology
From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

## AI Etymology
Bucket comes from Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

## Topics
- General Vocabulary

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