basket – English noun declension

English noun forms of basket

Noun: basket
Singularbasket
Pluralbaskets

Sample Sentences

  • A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
  • The earliest Wabanaki baskets were strong and bulky; practical tools for everyday life. [2026 May 26, Hannah Martin, “Fancy Baskets”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 97:]
  • 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. [2004, Gichinga Ndirangu, Heinrich Böll Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya), An African civil society action toward WTO 2003 (page 16)]
  • The point guard drove toward the basket.
  • The last-second basket sealed the victory.
  • Let's play some basket.
  • In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket. [1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:]
  • Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets. [1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:]
  • Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth. [2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:]
  • Thus the capital of the Corinthian column always resembles a deep narrow basket covered with a tile, and completely surrounded by foliage [1832, Edward Hall, Civil Architecture:]
  • Wait till I catch you, you little basket!
  • Don't smoosh the basket.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Celtic *baskis
3. Proto-Brythonicder.
4. Late Latin bascauda
5. Anglo-Norman bascatbor.
6. Middle English basket
7. English basket
8. From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman baschet, basket, bascat, of obscure origin. Displaced native Old English mand.
9. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'basket', Latin Nouns 'fascis', Ancient Greek Nouns 'φάκελος'.

Verbs referencing "basket"

Dutch Nouns basket, Zulu Nouns ubhasikidi, Ancient Greek Nouns φάσκωλος, Irish Nouns bascaed.