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basin has 11 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 5 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
“she mixed the dough in a large basin”
a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
“the basin of the Great Salt Lake”
the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
“flood control in the Missouri basin”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for basin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.