baseball

Plural

baseballs

1. 1.A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective 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.

   • 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. 2.The ball used to play the sport of baseball.

   • Our baseball team is very strong.

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

   • Our baseball team is very strong.

Overall

Common· #1736

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Uncommon

General reading & writing

Common

Academic

Rare

Literature

Rare

Synonyms

• ball

Word family

• base