Meanings
plural laundry baskets
- 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
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
laundry basket. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laundry%20basket
“laundry basket.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laundry%20basket. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “laundry basket,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laundry%20basket.
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