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baseball

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/
  • US: /ˈbeɪs.bɔl/
  • US: /ˈbeɪs.bɑl/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: B EY1 S B AO1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The ball used to play the sport of baseball.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he played baseball in high school
  • there was a baseball game on every empty lot
  • there was a desire for National League ball in the area
  • play ball!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: baseball game

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: ball game, ballgame

Narrower terms: ball, professional baseball, hardball, perfect game, no-hit game, no-hitter, one-hitter, 1-hitter, two-hitter, 2-hitter, three-hitter, 3-hitter, four-hitter, 4-hitter, five-hitter, 5-hitter, softball, softball game, rounders, stickball, stickball game, steal

5

noun

Meaning 5

a ball used in playing baseball

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: ball, baseball equipment

History

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.

Across languages

Translations

120 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: bofbal — ball game
  • Albanian: bejsboll — ball game
  • Arabic: بَيْسْبُول (baysbūl) — ball game
  • Armenian: բեյսբոլ (beysbol) — ball game
  • Asturian: béisbol — ball game
  • Azerbaijani: beysbol — ball game
  • Belarusian: бейсбо́л (bjejsból) — ball game
  • Bengali: বেসবল (besbol) — ball game
  • Bulgarian: бейзбол (bejzbol) — ball game
  • Burmese: ဗေ့စဘော (be.ca.bhau:) — ball game
  • Burmese: ဘေ့စ်ဘော (bhec.bhau:) — ball game
  • Catalan: beisbol — ball game
  • Cherokee: ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (alasgalodi) — ball game
  • Hakka Chinese: 野球 (yâ-khiù) — ball game
  • Chinese: 野球 (zh-min-nan) — ball game
  • Chinese Mandarin: 棒球 (bàngqiú) — ball game
  • Czech: baseball — ball game
  • Danish: baseball — ball game
  • Dutch: honkbal — ball game
  • Esperanto: basbalo — ball game
  • Esperanto: bazopilkado — ball game
  • Estonian: pesapall — ball game
  • Finnish: baseball — ball game
  • Finnish: pesäpallo — ball game
  • Finnish: amerikkalainen pesäpallo — ball game
  • French: baseball — ball game
  • French: base-ball — ball game
  • West-Frisian: basebal — ball game
  • Galician: béisbol — ball game
  • Georgian: ბეისბოლი (beisboli) — ball game
  • German: Baseball — ball game
  • Greek: μπέιζμπολ (béizmpol) — ball game
  • Hebrew: כדור־בסיס (kadur-basys) — ball game
  • Hebrew: בֵּיסבּוֹל — ball game
  • Hebrew: בייסבול (beysbol) — ball game
  • Hindi: बेसबॉल (besbŏl) — ball game
  • Hungarian: baseball — ball game
  • Icelandic: hafnabolti — ball game
  • Icelandic: hornabolti — ball game
  • Indonesian: bisbol — ball game
  • Irish: daorchluiche — ball game
  • Italian: baseball — ball game
  • Italian: pallabase — ball game
  • Italian: batti e corri — ball game
  • Japanese: 野球 (yakyū) — ball game
  • Japanese: ベースボール (bēsubōru) — ball game
  • Kazakh: бейсбол (beisbol) — ball game
  • Khmer: បេស្បល (beesbɑɑl) — ball game
  • Korean: 야구 (yagu) — ball game
  • Korean: 베이스볼 (beiseubol) — ball game
  • Kyrgyz: бейсбол (beysbol) — ball game
  • Lao: ເບດບອນ (bēt bǭn) — ball game
  • Latin: ludus pilae et basium — ball game
  • Latin: basipila — ball game
  • Latvian: beisbols — ball game
  • Lithuanian: beisbolas — ball game
  • Luxembourgish: Baseball — ball game
  • Macedonian: безбол (bezbol) — ball game
  • Macedonian: бејзбол (bejzbol) — ball game
  • Malay: besbol — ball game
  • Maltese: bejżbol — ball game
  • Māori: poipapa — ball game
  • Mongolian: бэйсбол (bejsbol) — ball game
  • Navajo: jooł daakalígíí — ball game
  • Navajo: jooł yikalí — ball game
  • Norwegian Bokmål: baseball — ball game
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: baseball — ball game
  • Occitan: beisbòl — ball game
  • Ojibwe: bakitejii'igem — ball game
  • Persian: بیسبال (beysbâl) — ball game
  • Plautdietsch: Beebaul — ball game
  • Polish: baseball — ball game
  • Polish: bejsbol — ball game
  • Portuguese: beisebol — ball game
  • Portuguese: basebol — ball game
  • Romanian: baseball — ball game
  • Romansh: baseball — ball game
  • Russian: бейсбо́л (bejsból) — ball game
  • Serbo-Croatian: бѐјзбо̄л — ball game
  • Serbo-Croatian: bèjzbōl — ball game
  • Sinhalese: බේස්බෝල් (bēsbōl) — ball game
  • Slovak: bejzbal — ball game
  • Slovene: baseball — ball game
  • Spanish: béisbol — ball game
  • Spanish: beisbol — ball game
  • Swahili: besiboli — ball game
  • Swedish: baseboll — ball game
  • Tagalog: beysbol — ball game
  • Tajik: бейсбол (beysbol) — ball game
  • Thai: เบสบอล (bées-bɔn) — ball game
  • Turkish: beyzbol — ball game
  • Turkmen: beýzbol — ball game
  • Turkmen: beýsbol — ball game
  • Ukrainian: бейсбо́л (bejsból) — ball game
  • Urdu: بیس بال (bes bāl) — ball game
  • Uzbek: beysbol — ball game
  • Vietnamese: bóng chày — ball game
  • Yiddish: בײסבאָל (beysbol) — ball game
  • Afrikaans: bofbal — ball used in baseball-game
  • Bulgarian: бейзболна топка (bejzbolna topka) — ball used in baseball-game
  • Cherokee: ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (alasgalodi) — ball used in baseball-game
  • Chinese Mandarin: 棒球 (bàngqiú) — ball used in baseball-game
  • Dutch: honkbal — ball used in baseball-game
  • Finnish: baseball-pallo — ball used in baseball-game
  • French: balle de baseball — ball used in baseball-game
  • Hungarian: baseball-labda — ball used in baseball-game
  • Icelandic: hafnabolti — ball used in baseball-game
  • Icelandic: hornabolti — ball used in baseball-game
  • Japanese: 野球ボール (yakyūbōru) — ball used in baseball-game
  • Korean: 야구공 (yagugong) — ball used in baseball-game
  • Maltese: ballun tal-bejżbol — ball used in baseball-game
  • Navajo: jooł — ball used in baseball-game
  • Plautdietsch: Beebaul — ball used in baseball-game
  • Portuguese: bola de beisebol — ball used in baseball-game
  • Spanish: pelota beisbolera — ball used in baseball-game
  • Spanish: bola beisbolística — ball used in baseball-game
  • Swedish: baseboll — ball used in baseball-game
  • Turkish: beyzbol topu — ball used in baseball-game
  • Chinese Mandarin: 棒球撲克 /棒球扑克 — variety of poker
  • Finnish: baseball — variety of poker
Real reading context

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