basketball /'bɑ:skitbɒ:l/
Meaning
English definition
- (n.) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop
- (n.) an inflated ball used in playing basketball
Chinese translation
- n. 篮球
Word details
- Part of speech
- noun
- Pronunciation
- /'bɑ:skitbɒ:l/
- Syllables
- 3
- Exam levels
- Middle-school · Gaokao
- Frequency
- Zipf 4.56 · Rare
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