Definition of basket

"basket" in the noun sense

1. basket, handbasket

a container that is usually woven and has handles

2. basket, basketful

the quantity contained in a basket

3. basket, basketball hoop, hoop

horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball

4. basket, field goal

a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop

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Quotations for basket

I would have the fruit, not the basket. [ Proverb ]

He that makes one basket may make a hundred. [ Proverb ]

He hath stole a roll out of the brewer's basket. [ Proverb ]

A basket-justice will do justice, right or wrong. [ Proverb ]

O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act V. Sc.1 ]

They have been at a great feast of language, and stolen the scraps.
They have lived long in the alms-basket of words! [ William Shakespeare ]

The world is a picnic to which every one takes his basket, to carry back whatever he can grasp.

Plagiarists are purloiners who filch the fruit that others have gathered, and then throw away the basket. [ Chatfield ]

basket in Scrabble®

The word basket is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters basket:

BASKET
(51)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word basket

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In basket

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(51)
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(48)
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basket in Words With Friends™

The word basket is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters basket:

BASKET
(75)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word basket

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In basket

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(75)
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(69)
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(69)
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(66)
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(63)
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Words within the letters of basket

2 letter words in basket (5 words)

3 letter words in basket (14 words)

6 letter words in basket (1 word)

basket + 1 blank (2 words)

Word Growth involving basket

Shorter words in basket

as ask bask

Longer words containing basket

basketane basketanes

basketball basketballer basketballers

basketball basketballs

basketful basketfuls

basketlike

basketload basketloads

basketmaker basketmakers

basketmaking

basketries

basketry

baskets breadbaskets

baskets bushelbaskets

baskets clothesbaskets

baskets washbaskets

baskets wastebaskets

basketware basketwares

basketwork basketworks

breadbasket breadbaskets

bushelbasket bushelbaskets

clothesbasket clothesbaskets

handbasket

washbasket washbaskets

wastebasket wastebaskets