laundry basket

noun

A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles, especially before and after being laundered.

Similar
clothes hamperclothes basketvoider

Meanings

nounlaundry basket (plural laundry baskets)

plural laundry baskets

  1. A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles, especially before and after being laundered.
    1 more example

    Fortunately, Frank had devised a cool way of getting down the seemingly endless staircase. He’d found an old laundry basket, and with felt-tip pens had painted it with the colours of Queenie – red, white and blue. All he had to do was sit at the top of the staircase, and then let gravity take its course.

    2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried

Similar
clothes hamperclothes basketvoider
Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 洗衣籃 /洗衣篮, 洗衣筐
  • 洗衣籃 /洗衣篮 (xǐyīlán)container for holding and transporting clothing
  • 洗衣筐 (xǐyīkuāng)container for holding and transporting clothing
Dutch wasmand
  • wasmandcontainer for holding and transporting clothing
Esperanto lavotaĵujo
  • lavotaĵujocontainer for holding and transporting clothing
Estonian pesukorv
  • pesukorvcontainer for holding and transporting clothing
Finnish pyykkikori
  • pyykkikoricontainer for holding and transporting clothing
German Wäschekorb
  • Wäschekorbcontainer for holding and transporting clothing
Irish ciseán níocháin
  • ciseán níocháincontainer for holding and transporting clothing
Māori pūtē
  • pūtēcontainer for holding and transporting clothing
Norwegian Bokmål skittentøyskurv
  • skittentøyskurvcontainer for holding and transporting clothing
Polish kosz m na bieliznę (brudną)
  • kosz m na bieliznę (brudną)container for holding and transporting clothing
Spanish cesta, cesto
  • cestacontainer for holding and transporting clothing
  • cestocontainer for holding and transporting clothing
  • canastacontainer for holding and transporting clothing
  • canastocontainer for holding and transporting clothing
Swedish tvättkorg
  • tvättkorgcontainer for holding and transporting clothing
Turkish kirli sepeti
  • kirli sepeticontainer for holding and transporting clothing
Welsh basged ddillad
  • basged ddilladcontainer for holding and transporting clothing
Cite this entry
APA

laundry basket. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laundry%20basket

MLA

“laundry basket.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laundry%20basket. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “laundry basket,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laundry%20basket.

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