Noun: basketball
| Singular | basketball |
| Plural | basketballs |
Sample Sentences
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to play basketball
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He pursued basketball as his career.
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Children playing basketball at their home in front of the John Amos coal-fired power plant in Poca, W.Va. President Biden’s infrastructure plan includes climate change measures that aim to close coal-fired plants. [2021 May 12, Emily Cochrane, “In Infrastructure Talks With Biden, Capito Faces Fraught Path to Deal”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2021:]
Nouns inflected like basketball
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
9. Proto-Germanic *balluz
10. Old English *beall
11. Middle English bal
12. English ball
13. English basketball
14. From basket + ball.
Verbs referencing "basketball"
French Nouns
basket, Italian Nouns
basket, Swedish Nouns
basket, Italian Nouns
pallacanestro, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
basketball, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
basketball, German Nouns
Basketball, Faroese Nouns
kurvabóltur, Galician Nouns
baloncesto, Spanish Nouns
baloncesto, Finnish Nouns
koripallo, French Nouns
basket-ball, Portuguese Nouns
basquete, Romanian Nouns
baschet, Dutch Nouns
basketbal, Belarusan Nouns
баскетбол, Russian Nouns
баскетбол, Ukrainian Nouns
баскетбол, Catalan Nouns
basquetbol, Spanish Nouns
básquet, Asturian Nouns
baloncestu, Icelandic Nouns
körfubolti, Portuguese Nouns
básquete, Spanish Nouns
basquet, Spanish Nouns
básket, Romanian Nouns
baschetbal.