baseball

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

base +‎ ball

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

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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.
   • 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volumes (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.

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.

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

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

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

Borrowed from English baseball.

baseball m inan

1. baseball

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

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

baseball

1. baseball

• amerikkalainen pesäpallo (archaic)

• “baseball”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Borrowed from English baseball.

• IPA^(key): /bɛz.bɔl/

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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 Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.zbol/
• Rhymes: -ɛzbol

baseball m (invariable)

1. baseball

   Synonym: (rare) pallabase

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/

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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)