Meaning

noun a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids

noun the quantity that a basin will hold

noun a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it

originEtymology tree Proto-Celtic *baskis Gaulish *baskisder. Vulgar Latin bacca Vulgar Latin *baccinum Old French bacinbor. Middle English basyn English basin From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).

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