basket

CEFRA2

/ˈbɑːskɪt/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A container made of woven material, used for carrying things.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom., A bed for a cat.

Examples

  • Mary set the basket on the table.

  • Quite a lot of rotten apples were in the basket.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈbaːskət/
  • /ˈbaskɪt/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.

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

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

More examples

In context

  • A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.

  • The point guard drove toward the basket.

  • 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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, 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”).