What does baseball mean?
Definitions for baseball
ˈbeɪsˌbɔlbase·ball
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word baseball.
Princeton's WordNet
baseball, baseball game(noun)
a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
"he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!"
baseball(noun)
a ball used in playing baseball
Wiktionary
baseball(Noun)
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.
Etymology: base + ball
baseball(Noun)
The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
Etymology: base + ball
baseball(Noun)
A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
Etymology: base + ball
Webster Dictionary
Baseball(noun)
a game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball
Baseball(noun)
the ball used in this game
Freebase
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players who take turns batting and baserunning. The offense attempts to score more runs than its opponents by hitting a ball thrown by the pitcher with a bat and moving counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third and home plate. A run is scored when the runner advances around the bases and returns to home plate. Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance on a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for both teams, beginning with the visiting team, constitutes an inning, and nine innings a game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins. Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-18th century. This game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed. By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball is now popular in North America and parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, East Asia and Europe.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Baseball
A competitive nine-member team sport including softball.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
BASEBALL
A game in which the young man who bravely strikes out for himself receives no praise for it.
Editors Contribution
baseball
A team sport with a specific number of players, played according to specific rules.
Baseball is a popular sport in America.
Submitted by MaryC on February 4, 2017
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of baseball in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of baseball in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of baseball in a Sentence
The thing that’s nice about baseball is that there are so many statistics kept on each player.
This scandal changes little, we all knew money was changing hands. It happens in all sports, baseball, soccer, basketball.
Once we committed to staying, businesses, developers, city planners knew there would continue to be three million people coming into this neighborhood each and every baseball season.
We were disappointed to learn of today's suspension of Emmanuel Clase for violating Major League Baseball's joint drug prevention and treatment program, we fully support Major League Baseball's policy and Major League Baseball efforts to eliminate performance-enhancing drugs from our game.
Baseball was the only game in town in the 1960s.
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Translations for baseball
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- bofbalAfrikaans
- بيسبولArabic
- бейсболBelarusian
- бейзболBulgarian
- beisbolCatalan, Valencian
- baseballCzech
- baseballDanish
- BaseballGerman
- μπέιζμπολGreek
- béisbolSpanish
- pesapallEstonian
- pesäpalloFinnish
- balle de baseball, base-ball, baseballFrench
- basebalWestern Frisian
- daorchluicheIrish
- béisbolGalician
- כדור-בסיסHebrew
- बेसबॉलHindi
- baseballHungarian
- բեյսբոլArmenian
- bisbol, baseballIndonesian
- hornabolti, hafnaboltiIcelandic
- baseballItalian
- 野球Japanese
- 野球, 야구Korean
- BaseballLatin
- beisbolasLithuanian
- beisbolsLatvian
- бејзбол, безболMacedonian
- besbolMalay
- ballun tal-bejżbol, bejżbolMaltese
- honkbalDutch
- baseballNorwegian
- jooł daakalígíí, jooł, jooł yikalíNavajo, Navaho
- baseballPolish
- beisebol, basebolPortuguese
- baseballRomanian
- бейсболRussian
- бејзбол, bejzbolSerbo-Croatian
- බේස්බෝල්Sinhala, Sinhalese
- bejzbalSlovak
- bejsbolAlbanian
- basebollSwedish
- besiboliSwahili
- பேஸ்பால்Tamil
- beysolTagalog
- beyzbol, beyzbol topuTurkish
- бейсболUkrainian
- بیس بالUrdu
- bóng chàyVietnamese
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