baseball

• base ball (obsolete) [1800s]
• base-ball (dated)

From base +‎ ball.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪs.bɔl/, /ˈbeɪs.bɑl/

• Audio (US):

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baseball (plural baseballs)

1. A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, 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.
   • 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2016, Mike Westphal, Cloud of Expectation; Book One: The In America Series, Xlibris, →ISBN:

     “Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams.

2. The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
   • 2005 April 8, Brian Greene, “One Hundred Years of Uncertainty”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The reason we have for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabilities become highly skewed, hugely favoring one outcome and effectively suppressing all others.

3. A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:baseball.

• rounders
• softball
• wiffleball

• Category:baseball on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• baseball on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• baseball on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• baseball on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball. First attested in the 20th century.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛjzbol]

baseball m inan

1. baseball

From American English baseball.

baseball c (singular definite baseballen, not used in plural form)

1. baseball (ball game)

• rundbold
• softball

• “baseball” in Den Danske Ordbog

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbei̯sboːl/, [ˈbe̞i̯s̠bo̞ːl]
• Rhymes: -eisboːl
• Syllabification^(key): base‧ball
• Hyphenation^(key): base‧ball

baseball

1. baseball

• amerikkalainen pesäpallo (archaic)

• “baseball”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Borrowed from English baseball.

• IPA^(key): /bɛz.bɔl/

• Audio:

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baseball m (uncountable)

1. post-1990 spelling of base-ball

Borrowed from English baseball.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbeːzboːl]
• Hyphenation: base‧ball
• Rhymes: -oːl

baseball (usually uncountable, plural baseballok)

1. (sports) baseball

• baseball in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛz.bol/
• Rhymes: -ɛzbol

baseball m (invariable)

1. baseball

   Synonyms: (rare) pallabase, (informal) batti e corri

From American English baseball.

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

1. baseball (ball game)

• “baseball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “baseball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From American English baseball.

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

1. baseball (ball game)

• “baseball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• bejsbol

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛjz.bɔl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛjzbɔl
• Syllabification: base‧ball

baseball m inan

1. (sports, uncountable) baseball (ball game)
2. (countable) baseball bat

   Synonym: bejsbolówka

• baseball in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• baseball in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

baseball n (uncountable)

1. baseball

baseball c

1. alternative form of baseboll

• baseball in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• baseball in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)