HAMPER meaning: Basket for carrying laundry items

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word hamper:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

hamper: Merriam-Webster.com
hamper, hamper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
hamper, hamper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
hamper: Collins English Dictionary
hamper: Vocabulary.com
Hamper, hamper: Wordnik
hamper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
hamper: Wiktionary
hamper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
hamper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
hamper: Infoplease Dictionary
Hamper, hamper: Dictionary.com
hamper (n.), hamper (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
hamper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Hamper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Hamper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
hamper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
hamper: Rhymezone
hamper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
hamper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
hamper: Free Dictionary
hamper: Mnemonic Dictionary
hamper: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
hamper: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

hamper: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

hamper: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

hamper: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See hampered as well.)

Google, News, Wikipedia, Reddit, X, BlueSky, Kagi

Definitions from Wiktionary (

)

▸ noun:  A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals.
▸ noun:  (uncommon outside New England) A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper), as opposed to a covered wicker basket which is a true hamper.
▸ noun:  (UK) A gift basket.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To put into a hamper.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle.
▸ verb:  To impede in motion or progress.
▸ noun:  A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
▸ noun:  (nautical) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.

Opposite:

facilitate, ease, help, improve

Types:

laundry hamper, laundry basket, wicker hamper, plastic hamper, hamper with lid, more...

Phrases:

clothes hamper, picnic hamper, top hamper, food hamper, main hamper, more...

Adjectives:

top, large, small, big, huge, little, great, empty, old, much, heavy

Colors:

beige, brown, cream, tan, white, gray, olive, khaki, taupe, sand

▸ Word origin

▸ Words similar to hamper

▸ Usage examples for hamper

▸ Idioms related to hamper

▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)

▸ Words that often appear near hamper

▸ Rhymes of hamper

▸ Invented words related to hamper