Does canasta or cesto mean basket in Mexican spanish?

Question

Does canasta or cesto mean basket in Mexican spanish?

Answer 1

They might both be used. If you look in previous threads or in the R A E dictionary you will find that cesto, cesta, canasto, canasta are all used for baskets of different styles or sizes.

canasta

canasto

cesta

cesto

How about papelera?

Answer 2

in Chile papelero = paperbasket or wastebasket (just paper)

Answer 3

As Qfreed has noted, they are both used in Mexico, but canasta is more common.

And about papelera: This commonly refers to an inundation of paper work, or just a big mess of paper.

Oh, I thought that it was a wastebasket. - 0074b507, Jun 29, 2011