basin – English noun declension

English noun forms of basin

Noun: basin
Singularbasin
Pluralbasins

Sample Sentences

  • First, as you know, my house within the city
  • Is richly furnished with plate and gold,
  • Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands; [c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
  • After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 13:5:]
  • What then, you will say, must a man sit with his chops and fingers up to the ears and knuckles in grease? No; let those who cannot eat without defiling themselves, step into another room, provided with basons and towels: but I think it would be better to institute schools, where youth may learn to eat their victuals, without daubing themselves, or giving offence to the eyes of one another. [1766, T[obias] Smollett, “Letter V”, in Travels through France and Italy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC:]
  • Everybody had washed before going to bed, apparently, and the bowls were ringed with a dark sediment which the hard, alkaline water had not dissolved. Shutting the door on this disorder, he turned back to the kitchen, took Mahailey’s tin basin, doused his face and head in cold water, and began to plaster down his wet hair. [1923, Willa Cather, One of Ours, Book One, Chapter 1:]
  • […] Mr. John Knightley, ashamed of his ill-humour, was now all kindness and attention; and so particularly solicitous for the comfort of her father, as to seem—if not quite ready to join him in a basin of gruel—perfectly sensible of its being exceedingly wholesome […] [1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], Emma: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:]
  • They have a good basin of coffee or cocoa for breakfast […] [1826, George Wood, chapter 7, in The Subaltern Officer: A Narrative, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, page 109:]
  • He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: ¶ ‘Please, sir, I want some more.’ [1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:]
  • 1893, Gilbert Parker, “The March of the White Guard,” in Tavistock Tales, New York: Tait Sons & Co., p. 27,
  • Gaspé Toujours is drinking a basin of tea, and Jeff Hyde is fitfully dozing by the fire.
  • A steaming basin of coffee or soup revived them greatly, and even having to decide which of these refreshments they would have, and helping themselves to bread, pulled them together a little. [1915, Sarah Broom Macnaughtan, chapter 7, in A Woman’s Diary of the War, New York: Dutton, published 1916, page 99:]
  • This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals […] [1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 31, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:]
  • The fountains were plashing musically into marble and alabaster basins. [1891, Frederic Farrar, chapter 6, in Darkness at Dawn:]
  • There was a stone basin of clear but motionless water, and the heavy reddish-and-yellow arches went round the courtyard with warrior-like fatality, their bases in dark shadow. [1926, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 2, in The Plumed Serpent:]
  • Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota. [2012 January 26, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46:]
  • ‘Wondered if there was any chance of mooring my boat here. Basin’s pretty crowded.’ ‘Nope.’ [1954, Ian Fleming, “Death of a Pelican”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Celtic *baskis
3. Gaulish *baskisder.
4. Latin bacca
5. Vulgar Latin *baccinum
6. Old French bacinbor.
7. Middle English basyn
8. English basin
9. From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”). See: Middle English Nouns 'basyn'.

Verbs referencing "basin"

German Nouns Becken, Zulu Nouns ubheseni.