Basque Definition

băsk
noun
A woman's close-fitting bodice.
American Heritage
A woman's tightfitting bodice or tunic.
Webster's New World
A member of a people of unknown origin inhabiting the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay in France and Spain.
American Heritage
A member of a people living in the W Pyrenees of Spain and France.
Webster's New World
The language of the Basques, of no known linguistic affiliation.
American Heritage
adjective
Of the Basques or their language or culture.
Webster's New World
Relative to the Basque people or their language.
Wiktionary
pronoun
The language of the Basque people.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Basque

Noun

Singular:
basque
Plural:
basques

Origin of Basque

  • French basque (“Basque”), from Latin Vascones, a Roman era tribe in the Franco-Cantabrian region of southern Europe who were ancestors of the current Basque population. Cognate to Gascon; see Gascony for details.

    From Wiktionary

  • French skirt of a garment alteration (perhaps influenced by Basque Basque) of Old French baste from Italian basta tuck possibly of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French probably from Latin Vascō perhaps from Varscunes, Vascunes ethnonym of the Pyrenees region in antiquity

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French basque.

    From Wiktionary

Basque Sentence Examples

  • He gradually obtained full possession of Navarre and the Basque provinces, outside of the fortresses, which he had not the means to besiege.

  • Though the three Basque Provinces were thus united to the crown of Spain, they still remained a land apart (tierra apartada).

  • In appearance Xavier was neither Spanish nor Basque.

  • The principal evidence which Humboldt adduced in its support was the possibility of explaining a vast number of the ancient topographical names of Spain, and of other asserted Iberian districts, by the forms and significations of Basque.

  • Of the Provinces, Guipuzcoa is the only one which is wholly Basque, Alava is the least so.

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Words Starting With

BBABAS

Words Ending With

EUEQUE

Unscrambles

basque

Words Starting With B and Ending With E

Starts With B & Ends With EStarts With BA & Ends With EStarts With B & Ends With UE

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With B6 Letter Words Ending With E