English Explanatory Dictionary

Bassin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Bassin Bassins

Etymology

Two possible origins: * Jewish metronymic surname from an Yiddish pet form of the personal name Bathsheba. * Borrowed from French Bassin, a metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of basins, from bassin (“small basin”).

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