Basque

//bɑːsk// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to the Basque people or their language. not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The language of the Basque people.

    "If you like a challenge, try Hungarian. It’s like no other European language you’ve heard, except maybe Basque."

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.
  2. 2
    The part of a waistcoat etc. extending below the waist.
  3. 3
    the language of the Basque people; of no known relation to any other language wordnet
  4. 4
    A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature.

    "Will she be able to pull off the double act? Can she play the cosy tradwife and still be the sexpot in a basque?"

  5. 5
    a member of a people of unknown origin living in the western Pyrenees in France and Spain wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from French basque.

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