baseball
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
baseball (plural baseballs)
- 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.
- The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
- A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
Usage notes edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:baseball.
Derived terms edit
- baseball Annie
- baseball bat
- baseball cap
- baseball card
- baseball diamond
- baseballer
- baseball field
- baseball game
- baseball glove
- baseball hat
- baseballist
- baseball mitt
- baseball player
- baseball rule
- baseball stadium
- British baseball
- fantasy baseball
- indoor baseball
- inside-baseball
- inside baseball
- insider baseball
- organized baseball
- rotisserie baseball
- scrub baseball
- Welsh baseball
Translations edit
ball game
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ball used in baseball-game
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variety of poker
See also edit
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English baseball.
Noun edit
baseball m inan
Declension edit
Declension of baseball (hard masculine inanimate)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | baseball | basebally |
genitive | baseballu | baseballů |
dative | baseballu | baseballům |
accusative | baseball | basebally |
vocative | baseballe | basebally |
locative | baseballe, baseballu | baseballech |
instrumental | baseballem | basebally |
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
baseball
Declension edit
Inflection of baseball (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | baseball | baseballit | ||
genitive | baseballin | baseballien | ||
partitive | baseballia | baseballeja | ||
illative | baseballiin | baseballeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | baseball | baseballit | ||
accusative | nom. | baseball | baseballit | |
gen. | baseballin | |||
genitive | baseballin | baseballien | ||
partitive | baseballia | baseballeja | ||
inessive | baseballissa | baseballeissa | ||
elative | baseballista | baseballeista | ||
illative | baseballiin | baseballeihin | ||
adessive | baseballilla | baseballeilla | ||
ablative | baseballilta | baseballeilta | ||
allative | baseballille | baseballeille | ||
essive | baseballina | baseballeina | ||
translative | baseballiksi | baseballeiksi | ||
abessive | baseballitta | baseballeitta | ||
instructive | — | baseballein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms edit
- amerikkalainen pesäpallo (archaic)
Further reading edit
- “baseball”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English baseball.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
baseball m (uncountable)
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English baseball.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
baseball (usually uncountable, plural baseballok)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | baseball | baseballok |
accusative | baseballt | baseballokat |
dative | baseballnak | baseballoknak |
instrumental | baseballal | baseballokkal |
causal-final | baseballért | baseballokért |
translative | baseballá | baseballokká |
terminative | baseballig | baseballokig |
essive-formal | baseballként | baseballokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | baseballban | baseballokban |
superessive | baseballon | baseballokon |
adessive | baseballnál | baseballoknál |
illative | baseballba | baseballokba |
sublative | baseballra | baseballokra |
allative | baseballhoz | baseballokhoz |
elative | baseballból | baseballokból |
delative | baseballról | baseballokról |
ablative | baseballtól | baseballoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
baseballé | baseballoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
baseballéi | baseballokéi |
Possessive forms of baseball | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | baseballom | baseballjaim |
2nd person sing. | baseballod | baseballjaid |
3rd person sing. | baseballja | baseballjai |
1st person plural | baseballunk | baseballjaink |
2nd person plural | baseballotok | baseballjaitok |
3rd person plural | baseballjuk | baseballjaik |
Derived terms edit
Compound words
References edit
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Further reading edit
- 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)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
baseball m (invariable)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From American English baseball.
Noun edit
baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)
- baseball (ball game)
References edit
- “baseball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “baseball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From American English baseball.
Noun edit
baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)
- baseball (ball game)
References edit
- “baseball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
baseball m inan
- (sports, uncountable) baseball (ball game)
- (countable) baseball bat
- Synonym: bejsbolówka
Declension edit
Declension of baseball
singular | plural | |
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nominative | baseball | baseballe |
genitive | baseballa/baseballu | baseballi/baseballów |
dative | baseballowi | baseballom |
accusative | baseballa/baseballu | baseballe |
instrumental | baseballem | baseballami |
locative | baseballu | baseballach |
vocative | baseballu | baseballe |
Derived terms edit
adjective
nouns
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.
Noun edit
baseball n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of baseball (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) baseball | baseballul |
genitive/dative | (unui) baseball | baseballului |
vocative | baseballule |
Swedish edit
Noun edit
baseball c
- Alternative form of baseboll
Declension edit
Declension of baseball | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | baseball | baseballen | baseballar | baseballarna |
Genitive | baseballs | baseballens | baseballars | baseballarnas |