baseball
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baseball (plural baseballs)
- A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object 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.
- 1797-1798, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
- 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.
- 1797-1798, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
- The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
- A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
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[edit] Derived terms
- baseball bat
- baseball cap
- baseball diamond
- baseballer
- baseball game
- baseballist
- baseball player
- baseball stadium
- indoor baseball
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ballgame
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ball used in baseball-game
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variety of poker
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[edit] Czech
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baseball m.
- baseball (game)
[edit] Finnish
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baseball
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Declension of baseball (type risti)
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- amerikkalainen pesäpallo (archaic)
[edit] French
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English
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baseball m. (usually uncountable)
[edit] Hungarian
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- IPA: /ˈbeːsboːl/
- Hyphenation: ba‧se‧ball
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baseball
[edit] Italian
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English
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baseball m. inv.
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- pallabase (rare)
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- IPA: /ˈbɛjz̪bɔl/
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baseball m.
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| Singular only | |
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| Nominative | baseball |
| Genitive | baseballu |
| Dative | baseballowi |
| Accusative | baseball |
| Instrumental | baseballem |
| Locative | baseballu |
| Vocative | baseballu |