PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does professional basketball mean? 

• PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL (noun)
  The noun PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL has 1 sense:

1. playing basketball for money

  Familiarity information: PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Playing basketball for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("professional basketball" is a kind of...):

sport (the occupation of athletes who compete for pay)

basketball; basketball game; hoops (a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop)

Domain member category:

quarter ((football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided)