Basket
nounA container made of woven material such as cane, willow, or wire, used to hold or carry things.
How to spell basket
6 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce basket
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does basket mean?
- nounA container made of woven material such as cane, willow, or wire, used to hold or carry things.
Basket in a sentence
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She filled the basket with apples from the garden.
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The dirty clothes piled up in the laundry basket by the door.
Where does basket come from?
Language of origin: Unknown
Basket appeared in English in the 1200s, but its ultimate origin is genuinely uncertain, which is why it is best treated as a word of unknown source. It may have come through Anglo-Norman French, where forms like 'basket' and 'baskett' are recorded, yet scholars have never found a secure Latin or Continental parent for it. Some older dictionaries linked it to a Celtic or Welsh root for a woven vessel, but that connection is no longer regarded as proven. What is clear is that the meaning has stayed remarkably steady: from the start it named a container made by weaving together strips of cane, willow, or rush. Because the word is short and phonetic, its spelling rarely shifted, and the simple single 't' ending has caused no real trouble.
How the word is built
- basket (a single root word; no separable prefix or suffix)
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