baseball

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 See also 2 Czech 2.1 Noun 3 Finnish 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Declension 4 French 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Noun 5 Hungarian 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Noun 6 Italian 6.1 Etymology 6.2 Noun 6.2.1 Synonyms

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Wikipedia

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base + ball

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baseball (plural baseballs)

1. 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.

2. The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
3. A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

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• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

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• baseball bat
• baseball cap
• baseball diamond
• baseballer
• baseball game
• baseballist
• baseball player
• baseball stadium
• indoor baseball

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• rounders
• softball
• wiffleball
• Appendix:Glossary of baseball

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baseball m.

1. baseball (game)

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baseball

1. baseball

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Declension of baseball (type risti) singular plural nominative baseball baseballit genitive baseballin baseballien partitive baseballia baseballeja accusative baseball baseballin baseballit inessive baseballissa baseballeissa elative baseballista baseballeista illative baseballiin baseballeihin adessive baseballilla baseballeilla ablative baseballilta baseballeilta allative baseballille baseballeille essive baseballina baseballeina translative baseballiksi baseballeiksi instructive – baseballein abessive baseballitta baseballeitta comitative – baseballeineen

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English

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baseball m (usually uncountable)

1. baseball

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• IPA: /ˈbeːsboːl/
• Hyphenation: ba‧se‧ball

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baseball

1. baseball

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Wikipedia ^it

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English

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baseball m. inv.

1. (sports) baseball

[edit] Synonyms

• pallabase (rare)