bassinet

1. 1.

   a basket (usually hooded) used as a baby's bed

   Broaderbaby bed
2. 2.

   a perambulator that resembles a bassinet

   Broaderbaby buggy

Other forms of bassinet

plural

bassinets·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bassinet

What does bassinet mean?

bassinet means "a basket (usually hooded) used as a baby's bed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bassinet?

bassinet has 3 syllables: bas-si-net. The stress falls on "bas".

Is bassinet a common word?

bassinet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.