Noun: hamper
| Singular | hamper |
| Plural | hampers |
Sample Sentences
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a hamper of wine
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a clothes hamper
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an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels
Nouns inflected like hamper
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. From Middle English hamper, contracted from hanaper, hanypere, from Anglo-Norman hanaper, Old French hanapier, hanepier (“case for holding a large goblet or cup”), from hanap (“goblet, drinking cup”), from Frankish *hnapp (“cup, bowl, basin”), from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz (“cup, bowl”).
2. Cognate with Old High German hnapf (“cup, bowl, basin”) (German Napf (“bowl”)), Dutch nap (“cup”), Old English hnæpp (“bowl”). More at nap. See: Middle English Nouns '
hamper', German Nouns '
Napf', Dutch Nouns '
nap', Old English Nouns '
hnæpp'.
Verbs referencing "hamper"
Irish Nouns
amparán.