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Basque

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a people of unknown origin inhabiting the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay in France and Spain.
  • noun The language of the Basques, of no known linguistic affiliation.

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  • proper noun The language of the Basque people.
  • noun A member of a people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay in France and Spain.
  • adjective Relative to the Basque people or their language.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

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

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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.

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forms (1)

Forms

  1. Basque Country

rhymes (13)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Ask
  2. Pasch
  3. Rask
  4. ask
  5. bask
  6. cask
  7. flask
  8. lask
  9. mask
  10. pask
  11. pasque
  12. task
  13. unmask

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