first base

English

Noun

first base

1. (singular only, baseball) The base after home plate in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield.

   The runner took his lead off first base.

2. (singular only, by extension) Completion of the first phase of an activity.
3. (singular only, US, colloquial) Kissing, regarded as the first phase of a sexual relationship.
4. (blackjack) The betting spot located immediately to the left of the dealer, which is first to receive cards and first to act.

Hypernyms

• base

Translations

baseball: base after home plate

• Catalan: primera base (ca) f
• Finnish: ykköspesä (fi), ykkönen (fi)
• French: premier but (fr) m, première base (fr) f

• Japanese: 一塁 (ichirui)
• Korean: 1루 (illu)
• Russian: пе́рвая ба́за f (pérvaja báza)

See also

• second base
• third base
• home run / score