BASQUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Basque mean? 

• BASQUE (noun)
  The noun BASQUE has 2 senses:

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

2. the language of the Basque people; of no known relation to any other language

  Familiarity information: BASQUE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASQUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a people of unknown origin living in the western Pyrenees in France and Spain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Basque" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Holonyms ("Basque" is a member of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The language of the Basque people; of no known relation to any other language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Basque" is a kind of...):

natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

 Context examples 

This is the conclusion of a study carried out by the Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain, and Language (BCBL).

(Our Brains Synchronize during A Conversation, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A quiet land is this—a land where the slow-moving Basque, with his flat biretta-cap, his red sash and his hempen sandals, tills his scanty farm or drives his lean flock to their hill-side pastures.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then came archers of the guard, shrill-voiced women of the camp, English pages with their fair skins and blue wondering eyes, dark-robed friars, lounging men-at-arms, swarthy loud-tongued Gascon serving-men, seamen from the river, rude peasants of the Medoc, and becloaked and befeathered squires of the court, all jostling and pushing in an ever-changing, many-colored stream, while English, French, Welsh, Basque, and the varied dialects of Gascony and Guienne filled the air with their babel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)