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- Dictionaryhamper/ˈhampə/
noun
- 1. a basket with a carrying handle and a hinged lid, used for food, cutlery, and plates on a picnic: "a picnic hamper"
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The meaning of HAMPER is to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede. How to use hamper in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Hamper.
HAMPER definition: 1. to prevent someone doing something easily: 2. a large, rectangular container with a lid: 3. a…. Learn more.
HAMPER meaning: 1. to prevent someone doing something easily: 2. a large, rectangular container with a lid: 3. a…. Learn more.
To hamper means to hold back or impede something or someone, as in The road crew hampered traffic, causing a line of cars that went back for miles. Figuratively, hamper can mean to interfere with or diminish, as in The singers practicing in the next room really hampered my ability to study.
Anything that hampers slows progress or makes it difficult to do something. You might think that the presence of your parents hampers your ability to look cool. The verb hamper is for those times when normal progress is slow but not shut down completely.
a large basket or wicker receptacle with a cover: a clothes hamper; a picnic hamper. [1350–1400; Middle English hampere, variant of hanypere < Anglo-French; Middle French hanapier case to hold a drinking vessel]
A hamper is a basket containing food of various kinds that is given to people as a present.
HAMPER definition: 1. to make it difficult for someone to do something: 2. a large basket (= container made of thin…. Learn more.
hamper. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ham‧per1 /ˈhæmpə $ -ər/ verb [ transitive] to make it difficult for someone to do something She tried to run, but was hampered by her heavy suitcase. An attempt to rescue the men has been hampered by bad weather. → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus hamper • Wilken said ...
Hamper definition: To prevent the free movement, action, or progress of.
