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professional basketball vs basketball

basketball vs professional basketball

professional basketball and basketball both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
professional basketball Yes No No No
basketball Yes No No No
As nouns, basketball is a hypernym of professional basketball; that is, basketball is a word with a broader meaning than professional basketball:
  • professional basketball: playing basketball for money
  • basketball: 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
Other hypernyms of professional basketball include sport, basketball game, hoops.
professional basketball (noun) basketball (noun)
playing basketball for money 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
an inflated ball used in playing basketball
Difference between professional basketball and basketball

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