baseball

See also base ball, and base-ball

English

A baseball.

A game of baseball.

Wikipedia

Etymology

base + ball

Pronunciation

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Noun

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.

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

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

Translations

ballgame

Albanian: bejsbol (sq) Arabic: بيسبول (ar) (baysbuul) m. Armenian: բեյսբոլ (hy) (beysbol) Asturian: beisbol Bulgarian: бейзбол (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 棒球 (cmn) (bàngqiú) Croatian: bèjzbōl (hr) m. Czech: baseball (cs) Danish: baseball (da) Dutch: honkbal (nl) Estonian: pesapall Finnish: baseball, pesäpallo (Finnish variety of the game) French: baseball (fr) m., base-ball (fr) m. German: Baseball (de) m. Greek: μπέιζμπολ (el) (béizbol) Hebrew: כדור-בסיס (he) (kadur-basys) Hindi: बेसबॉल (hi) (bēsbol) Hungarian: baseball (hu) Icelandic: hafnabolti (is) m., hornabolti (is) m. Indonesian: bisbol Irish: daorchluiche (ga) m. Italian: baseball (it) m. Japanese: 野球 (ja) (やきゅう, yakyū)

Korean: 야구 (ko) (yagu) (野球 (ko)) Latvian: beisbols Lithuanian: krepšinis (lt) m. Macedonian: безбол (mk) (bézbol) m., бејзбол (mk) (béjzbol) m. Malay: besbol (ms) Maltese: bejżbol Navajo: jooł daakalígíí Norwegian: Bokmål: baseball (no) Polish: baseball (pl) m. Portuguese: (Brazil): beisebol (Portugal): basebol Romanian: baseball (ro) Russian: бейсбол (ru) (bejsból) m. Serbian: бејзбол (sr) (bejzbol) Slovak: bejzbal (sk) Spanish: béisbol (es) m. Swahili: besiboli Swedish: baseboll (sv) Turkish: beyzbol (tr) Ukrainian: бейсбол (uk) (bejsból) m. Vietnamese: bóng chày (vi) West Frisian: basebal

ball used in baseball-game

Finnish: baseball-pallo French: balle de baseball (fr) f. Icelandic: hafnabolti (is) m., hornabolti (is) m.

Maltese: ballun tal-bejżbol Navajo: jooł Turkish: beyzbol topu (tr)

variety of poker

See also

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

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Czech

Noun

baseball m.

1. baseball (game)

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Finnish

Noun

baseball

1. baseball

Declension

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

Synonyms

• amerikkalainen pesäpallo (archaic)

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French

Etymology

English

Noun

baseball m. (usually uncountable)

1. baseball

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

baseball

1. baseball

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Italian

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Etymology

English

Noun

baseball m. inv.

1. (sports) baseball

Synonyms

• pallabase (rare)

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Polish

Alternative forms

• bejsbol

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɛjz̪bɔl/

Noun

baseball m.

1. baseball

Declension

	Singular only
Nominative	baseball
Genitive	baseballu
Dative	baseballowi
Accusative	baseball
Instrumental	baseballem
Locative	baseballu
Vocative	baseballu

Derived terms

• baseballista
• baseballowy
• baseballówka