Definitions for Basque

Basque Basque

Spelling: [bask]
IPA: /bæsk/

Basque is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in Basque (abeqsu).

Definitions for Basque

noun

  1. one of a people of unknown origin inhabiting the western Pyrenees regions in France and Spain.
  2. their language, not known to be related to any other language.
  3. (lowercase) a close-fitting bodice, sometimes having an extension that covers the hips.
  4. (lowercase) the extension of this bodice or of a doublet.

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Basques or their language.

Examples for Basque

She was talking low to herself, but she spoke in Basque which he did not understand.

The obvious thing was to question the Basque as to long-ago events.

The girl was the wilful daughter of a Basque rancher over on the Porcupine.

Aznar jumped to conclusions, quickly blaming Basque separatist organization ETA for the al Qaeda attack.

As we pulled back the sheets the bed was full of confetti in the Basque colors, red, white and green.

Late in the afternoon of April 26, 1937 waves of bombers obliterated the ancient capital of Basque Spain, Guernica.

It is said that, in Basque, "you spell Solomon, and pronounce it Nebuchadnezzar."

Whenever a man talks indifferent Spanish, he says he is from the Basque.

We were headed to the small port of St-Jean-de-Luz in the Basque country near the Spanish border.

Hemingway and his first wife Hadley went from the Basque country to Pamplona over the Pyrenees by bus.

Word Value for Basque
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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