Synonyms of basins

basins

noun

plural of basin

1

as in bowls

a large circular container used especially for holding water for washing

They washed their clothes in a basin.

Related Words

• bowls
• bottles
• tubs
• buckets
• baskets
• containers
• jars
• kettles
• receptacles
• pots
• vessels
• crates
• holders
• pitchers
• pails
• boxes
• jugs
• packs
• vats
• kits
• caskets
• bags
• kegs
• lockers
• bins
• pockets
• carriers
• trunks
• chests
• cans
• sacks
• cases
• cartridges
• caddies
• cartons
• coolers
• hampers
• handbaskets
• warmers

2

as in valleys

a depressed or sunken area of land

The animals drank from a shallow basin surrounded by grasslands.

Related Words

• valleys
• pits
• ravines
• troughs
• gorges
• bowls
• cavities
• canyons
• holes
• caverns
• caves
• furrows
• burrows
• gullies
• hollows
• gutters
• ditches
• depressions
• trenches
• gulches
• wells
• excavations
• indentations
• concavities
• recesses
• dents
• grooves
• glens
• abysses
• craters
• vacuums
• boreholes
• alcoves
• indentures
• chasms
• voids
• rift valleys
• combes
• kloofs
• dints
• pockets
• sinkholes
• water holes
• potholes
• dingles
• sockets
• dells
• clefts
• nooks
• gulfs
• niches
• openings
• vacuities
• gouges
• postholes
• dimples
• impressions
• chuckholes
• alveoli
• wallows
• imprints
• notches

Dissimilar Words

• hills
• mounds
• tumors
• rises
• swellings
• humps
• projections
• swells
• lumps
• pimples
• bumps
• bunches
• protuberances
• protrusions
• bulges
• convexities
• cambers
• juts

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of basins

Their straight lines ran roughshod across natural drainage basins, leaving some tracts unirrigated. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Los Angeles County uses a network of 27 spreading grounds, where artificial basins fill up when storms send torrents cascading down from the mountains into the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026

The deal also brought together a portfolio than now includes the Marcellus, Eagle Ford and Powder River basins, among others. — David Faber, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026

Inspired by the region’s terrain of flat desert basins, mesas, and canyons, residents of New Mexico are drawn to this shade the most. — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 15 Sep. 2026

The new study, however, hypothesizes that shell direction is not itself an adaptive response, but rather is an accidental marker of a significant evolutionary event that starts in a small subpopulation and then sweeps across vast ocean basins. — Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026

More than half of the reservoirs technically compatible with gas-injection flooding sit within Texas and the broader Gulf Coast region, encompassing onshore basins and offshore fields. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026

So far, the hurricane center has named 14 storms in the eastern and central Pacific basins, including four hurricanes. — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026

As modern trade ships grow larger to increase efficiency when transporting goods, the Port of Oakland’s turning basins have become small in comparison. — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2026