basket

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • enPR: bäs'kĭt
  • IPA ^(key): /ˈbɑːskɪt/
  • SAMPA: /"bA:skIt/
• (US)
  • enPR: bäs'kət
  • IPA ^(key): /ˈbɑːskət/
  • SAMPA: /"bA:sk@t/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

Singular basket

Plural baskets

1. (countable) A basket is something like a bucket but with many holes like a net, made of soft sticks or grass or other long, thin material. People put things in the basket.
2. (countable) (sports) A basket is a net on a metal circle used in playing basketball.
3. (countable) A basket is a container that is used to hold items that you are wanting to purchase in a store.
   • Synonyms: shopping cart, cart and shopping basket

   She put the soup that she took off the shelf in the store into the basket.

• 
  A basket
• 
  The basket in the game basketball

Related words

• basketful
• basketry
• handbasket
• wastebasket
• breadbasket