clothes basket
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1.3
- noun
- /kloʊðz ˈbæskɪt/
:
cesta de ropa
- He didn't even want to think about what had happened to the ones he threw in the clothes basket.
Examples
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- In a clothes basket, sir.
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Mother excuses herself and heads toward the bathroom, where she has a bottle of gin hidden at the bottom of the wicker clothes basket.
Fiction book (1992) -
She placed her dirty laundry in the clothes basket before washing it.
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After doing the laundry, he folded the clothes and put them in the clothes basket.
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The children threw their wet swimsuits into the clothes basket after returning from the beach.
Synonyms
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1.0
A container made by weaving thin pieces of material with handles for carrying things
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1.9
A large basket with a lid used to carry or store clothes
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1.0
A basket for holding clothes that need washing or have just been washed
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1.4
A basket that holds dirty clothes before washing
A basket for holding dirty or wet clothes before they are washed
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning (a basket for holding clothes or laundry) is directly and transparently derived from combining 'clothes' (wearable items) + 'basket' (a container). This simple noun+noun composition follows common, cross-linguistically familiar compounding patterns and would be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Clothes basket is a very simple name: imagine a basket where you drop used clothes until you wash them. That's why it means 'a container for laundry'.