baseball
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
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.
Usage notes [edit]
- For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.
Derived terms [edit]
- baseball bat
- baseball cap
- baseball diamond
- baseballer
- baseball game
- baseballist
- baseball player
- baseball stadium
- indoor baseball
Translations [edit]
ballgame
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ball used in baseball-game
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variety of poker
See also [edit]
Czech [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English.
Noun [edit]
baseball m
Finnish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English.
Noun [edit]
baseball
Declension [edit]
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Declension of baseball (type risti)
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Synonyms [edit]
- amerikkalainen pesäpallo (archaic)
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
English
Noun [edit]
baseball m (usually uncountable)
Hungarian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈbeːsboːl/
- Hyphenation: ba‧se‧ball
Noun [edit]
baseball
Italian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
English
Noun [edit]
baseball m (invariable)
Synonyms [edit]
- pallabase (rare)
Polish [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈbɛjz̪bɔl/
Noun [edit]
baseball m
Declension [edit]
declension of baseball
| singular only | |
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| nominative | baseball |
| genitive | baseballu |
| dative | baseballowi |
| accusative | baseball |
| instrumental | baseballem |
| locative | baseballu |
| vocative | baseballu |
Derived terms [edit]
Categories:
- English compound words
- English nouns
- en:Baseball
- en:Sports
- Czech terms derived from English
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech nouns
- cs:Sports
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- fi:Sports
- French terms derived from English
- French nouns
- French uncountable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Baseball
- fr:Sports
- Hungarian terms derived from English
- Hungarian nouns
- hu:Sports
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian nouns
- it:Sports
- Polish terms derived from English
- Polish nouns
- pl:Sports