baseball
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
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.
- 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.
- 1797-1798, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
- The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
- A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
- French: baseball, base-ball
- German: Baseball
- Italian: baseball
- Portuguese: beisebol (Brazil), basebol (Portugal)
- Russian: бейсбо́л
- Spanish: béisbol
- French: balle de baseball
- Portuguese: bola de beisebol (Brazil)
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