From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, of obscure origin.

One theory is that it derives from Late Latin bascauda, from cel-bry-pro - (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask-.

• (RP) enPR: bäsʹkĭt, IPA: /ˈbɑːskɪt/
• (Northern England, Scotland) IPA: /ˈbaskɪt/, /ˈbaskɛt/
• (America)
  • (America) enPR: băsʹkĭt, IPA: /ˈbæskɪt/
  • (weak vowel) IPA: /ˈbæskət/
• (Australia) enPR: bäsʹkət, IPA: /ˈbaːskət/

basket

1. A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

   A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.

   1. (by extension) A bed for a cat.
2. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
3. (internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
4. (figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
   • 2004, Gichinga Ndirangu, Heinrich Böll Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya), An African civil society action toward WTO 2003 (page 16)

     The basket of issues that developing countries had vigorously wanted addressed such as agriculture, SANDD and implementation-related issues were given scant attention by developed countries for most part of the conference.

5. (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.

   The point guard drove toward the basket.

6. (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.

   The last-second basket sealed the victory.

7. (uncountable) The game of basketball.

   Let's play some basket.

8. A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
9. (LGBT, slang) The penis and region surrounding it.
10. (slang) The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
11. (obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
    • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:

      In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket.

12. (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
    1. A singlestick with a basket hilt.
       • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:

         Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets.

13. (ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
14. (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
15. (informal, euphemism) Bastard.

    Wait till I catch you, you little basket!

16. (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method

    Don't smoosh the basket.

• (container used in a shop) cart, shopping basket, shopping cart
• (storage place for online items) cart, shopping basket, shopping cart
• (basketball) basketball, hoops
• (genitals) Thesaurus:male crotch bulge

• French: panier
• German: Korb
• Italian: cestino, cesto, canestro, cesta, paniere
• Portuguese: cesto, cesta
• Russian: корзи́на
• Spanish: cesta, cesto, taxcal (Mexico), canasta

• Italian: carrello
• Portuguese: carrinho
• Russian: корзи́на

• Italian: canestro
• Portuguese: cesta
• Russian: корзи́на
• Spanish: canasta

• Italian: canestro
• Portuguese: cesta
• Spanish: canasta

basket (baskets, present participle basketing; simple past and past participle basketed)

1. (transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
2. (transitive, publishing) To cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.