baseball

See also base ball, and base-ball

English

A baseball.

A game of baseball.

Wikipedia

Etymology

base +‎ ball

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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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 usage examples 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

• Afrikaans: bofbal (af)
• Albanian: bejsbol (sq)
• Arabic: بيسبول (ar) (baysbuul) m
• Armenian: բեյսբոլ (hy) (beysbol)
• Asturian: béisbol (ast) m
• Belarusian: бейсбол (be) (bjejsbol)
• Bulgarian: бейзбол (bg) (bejzbol)
• Catalan: beisbol (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (chr) (alasgalodi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 棒球 (cmn) (bàngqiú)

• Czech: baseball (cs)
• Danish: baseball (da)
• Dutch: honkbal (nl)
• Estonian: pesapall (et)
• Finnish: baseball, pesäpallo (fi) (Finnish variety of the game)
• French: baseball (fr) m, base-ball (fr) m
• Galician: béisbol (gl) 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 (id)
• 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 (lv)
• Lithuanian: beisbolas (lt)
• Macedonian: безбол (mk) (bézbol) m, бејзбол (mk) (béjzbol) m
• Malay: besbol (ms), besbol (ms)
• Maltese: bejżbol (mt)
• Navajo: jooł daakalígíí, jooł yikalí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: baseball (no)

• Polish: baseball (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  (Brazil): beisebol (pt) m

  (Portugal): basebol (pt) m

• Romanian: baseball (ro)
• Russian: бейсбол (ru) (bejsból) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бејзбол (sh) m

  Roman: bejzbol (sh) m

• Sinhalese: බේස්බෝල් (si) (bēsbōl)
• Slovak: bejzbal (sk)
• Spanish: béisbol (es) m
• Swahili: besiboli (sw)
• Swedish: baseboll (sv)
• Tagalog: beysol (tl)
• Turkish: beyzbol (tr)
• Ukrainian: бейсбол (uk) (bejsból) m
• Urdu: بیس بال (ur)
• Vietnamese: bóng chày (vi)
• West Frisian: basebal (fy)

ball used in baseball-game

• Cherokee: ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (chr) (alasgalodi)
• 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

Etymology

From English.

Noun

baseball m

1. baseball

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Finnish

Etymology

From English.

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 (uncountable)

1. baseball

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Hungarian

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

baseball

1. baseball

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

English

Noun

baseball m (invariable)

1. baseball

Synonyms

• pallabase (rare)

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Polish

Alternative forms

• bejsbol

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɛjz̪bɔl/

Noun

baseball m

1. baseball

Declension

    declension of baseball

	singular only
nominative	baseball
genitive	baseballu
dative	baseballowi
accusative	baseball
instrumental	baseballem
locative	baseballu
vocative	baseballu

Derived terms

• baseballista
• baseballowy
• baseballówka