Definitions for basketball

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basketball bas·ket·ball

Spelling: [bas-kit-bawl, bah-skit-]

IPA: /ˈbæs kɪtˌbɔl, ˈbɑ skɪt-/

Basketball is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 395 anagrams from letters in basketball (aabbekllst).

Definitions for basketball

noun

1. a game played by two teams of usually five players each on a rectangular court having a raised basket or goal at each end, points being scored by tossing the ball through the opponent's basket.
2. the round, inflated ball, approximately 30 inches (76 cm) in circumference, used in this game.

Origin of basketball

An Americanism dating back to 1890-95; basket + ball¹

Examples for basketball

The basketball game was the final engagement on a seriously busy day for the young royals.

Soccer in the rest of the world is what we know as basketball.

He could teach them basketball and of course he could coach their baseball team.

I watch football, basketball, and hockey on TV and sometimes “The Bass Pros” on Outdoor Channel.

"Yes—you had to win the basketball game," he nodded with a judicious appreciation.

Hannigan pretended to be a basketball pro in order to impress a hot guy she had a crush on—only she had never played basketball.

You know she was on the crew and the basketball team and the hockey team at college.

Many members were not interested in basketball, except to look on.

The boys won't dance with me, and the girls shut me out of basketball.

It was around noon that Brinsley chucked the phone behind a radiator at the basketball stadium and went off the grid.