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baseball en · NOUN

Pronunciation

/ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/ (UK)
(US) audio
/ˈbeɪs.bɔl/ (US)
/ˈbeɪs.bɑl/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor. Latin basis Old French basebor. Middle English base English base Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Germanic *balluz Old English *beall Middle English bal English ball English baseball From base + ball.

Meanings

(uncountable) A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
- “Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams. 2016, Mike Westphal, Cloud of Expectation; Book One: The In America Series, Xlibris, →ISBN:
- It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books. 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
(countable) The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
- The reason we have for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabilities become highly skewed, hugely favoring one outcome and effectively suppressing all others. […] With such a skewed probability, the quantum reasoning goes, we have long overlooked the tiny chance that the baseball can (and, on extraordinarily rare occasions, will) land somewhere completely different. 2005 April 8, Brian Greene, “One Hundred Years of Uncertainty”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2021:
(countable, uncountable) A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
base ball		alternative, obsolete	lexicographic
baseballs	Number=Plur		lexicographic
base-ball		alternative, dated	lexicographic

Deriveds

softball · rounders · wiffleball

Translations (123)

ja ベースボール (ball game) · rm baseball (ball game) · nl honkbal (ball used in baseball-game) · eo bazopilkado (ball game) · sa आधारकन्दुकक्रीडा (ball game) · sw besiboli (ball game) · uk бейсбо́л (ball game) · fy basebal (ball game) · da baseball (ball game) · fi baseball-pallo (ball used in baseball-game) · tr beyzbol topu (ball used in baseball-game) · nv jooł daakalígíí (ball game) · pdt Beebaul (ball used in baseball-game) · ga daorchluiche (ball game) · it pallabase (ball game) · lv beisbols (ball game) · pdt Beebaul (ball game) · cmn 棒球 (ball used in baseball-game) · es beisbol (ball game) · ky бейсбол (ball game) · az beysbol (ball game) · mk безбол (ball game) · es bola beisbolística (ball used in baseball-game) · it batti e corri (ball game) · ar بَيْسْبُول (ball game) · fr balle de baseball (ball used in baseball-game) · sv baseboll (ball game) · fi baseball (variety of poker) · hu baseball (ball game) · hu baseball-labda (ball used in baseball-game) · cmn 棒球 (ball game) · yi בײסבאָל (ball game) · sv baseboll (ball used in baseball-game) · is hornabolti (ball game) · mt bejżbol (ball game) · es béisbol (ball game) · mt ballun tal-bejżbol (ball used in baseball-game) · nl honkbal (ball game) · nv jooł (ball used in baseball-game) · sh бѐјзбо̄л (ball game) · mn бэйсбол (ball game) · et pesapall (ball game) · ja ベースボール (ball used in baseball-game) · fr baseball (ball game) · is hornabolti (ball used in baseball-game) · lt beisbolas (ball game) · nb baseball (ball game) · si බේස්බෝල් (ball game) · nan-hbl 野球 (ball game) · hak 野球 (ball game) · pt basebol (ball game) · oc beisbòl (ball game) · fi baseball (ball game) · es pelota beisbolera (ball used in baseball-game) · pt beisebol (ball game) · nn baseball (ball game) · uz beysbol (ball game) · is hafnabolti (ball used in baseball-game) · lo ເບດບອນ (ball game) · mi poipapa (ball game) · eo basbalo (ball game) · he בֵּיסבּוֹל (ball game) · hi बेसबॉल (ball game) · fa بیسبال (ball game) · sq bejsboll (ball game) · ast béisbol (ball game) · ja 野球ボール (ball used in baseball-game) · gl béisbol (ball game) · pt bola de beisebol (ball used in baseball-game) · sk bejzbal (ball game) · af bofbal (ball used in baseball-game) · el μπέιζμπολ (ball game) · pl baseball (ball game) · ko 야구공 (ball used in baseball-game) · ro baseball (ball game) · my ဘေ့စ်ဘော (ball game) · tg бейсбол (ball game) · th เบสบอล (ball game) · tl beysbol (ball game) · chr ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (ball used in baseball-game) · vi bóng chày (ball game) · tk beýzbol (ball game) · la ludus pilae et basium (ball game) · sa आधारकन्दुक (ball used in baseball-game) · sl baseball (ball game) · bg бейзбол (ball game) · cmn 棒球撲克 /棒球扑克 (variety of poker) · sh bèjzbōl (ball game) · lb Baseball (ball game) · ca beisbol (ball game) · chr ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (ball game) · hy բեյսբոլ (ball game) · fi pesäpallo (ball game) · tr beyzbol (ball game) · fr base-ball (ball game) · he בייסבול (ball game) · ms besbol (ball game) · fi amerikkalainen pesäpallo (ball game) · ja 野球 (ball game) · cs baseball (ball game) · my ဗေ့စဘော (ball game) · ur بیس بال (ball game) · ru бейсбо́л (ball game) · he כדור־בסיס (ball game) · ko 야구 (ball game) · it baseball (ball game) · af bofbal (ball game) · mk бејзбол (ball game) · km បេស្បល (ball game) · la basipila (ball game) · oj bakitejii'igem (ball game) · ka ბეისბოლი (ball game) · bg бейзболна топка (ball used in baseball-game) · de Baseball (ball game) · is hafnabolti (ball game) · tk beýsbol (ball game) · nv jooł yikalí (ball game) · id bisbol (ball game) · be бейсбо́л (ball game) · kk бейсбол (ball game) · pl bejsbol (ball game) · bn বেসবল (ball game) · ko 베이스볼 (ball game)