English Explanatory Dictionary

basketball

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
  2. The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
verb
  1. To play basketball.
  2. To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball.

Pronunciation

/ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl/ /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔl/ /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɑl/ En-us-basketball.ogg

Word forms

basketball basketballs basketballing basketballed

Etymology

From basket + ball.

Synonyms

hoops b-ball

Derived words

3x3 basketball antibasketball basketball American basketball court basketballdom basketballer basketballese basketball player basketball shoes basketball shorts basketbrawl nonbasketball street basketball wheelchair basketball

Translations

Albanian: basketboll Arabic: كُرَة اَلسَّلَّة Aragonese: balonzesto Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܣܦܹܝܪ ܣܵܠܵܐ Armenian: բասկետբոլ Asturian: baloncestu Azerbaijani: basketbol Basque: saskibaloi Belarusian: баскетбо́л Bengali: বাস্কেটবল Bulgarian: баскетбо́л Burmese: ဘတ်စကက်ဘော Catalan: bàsquet Catalan: basquetbol Cebuano: basketbol Cherokee: ᏔᎷᏣ ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ Chinese Cantonese: 籃球 /篮球 Chinese: 籃球 /篮球 Chinese Mandarin: 籃球 /篮球 Chuvash: баскетбол Crimean Tatar: basketbol Czech: basketbal Danish: basketball Central Dusun: buul bakul Dutch: basketbal Esperanto: korbopilkado Esperanto: korbopilko Esperanto: basketbalo Estonian: korvpall Estonian: koss Faroese: kurvabóltur Finnish: koripallo Finnish: koripalloilu French: basket-ball French: basketball French: ballon-panier Friulian: bale tal zei Galician: baloncesto Georgian: კალათბურთი German: Basketball Greek: καλαθοσφαίριση Greek: μπάσκετ Gujarati: બાસ્કેટ બોલ Haitian Creole: baskètbòl Hebrew: כַּדּוּרְסַל Hindi: बास्केटबॉल Hindi: बास्केटबाल Hungarian: kosárlabda Icelandic: körfubolti m körfuknattleikur
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