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baseball

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

base +? ball

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?be?s.b??l/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?be?s.b?l/, /?be?s.b?l/

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 quotations using this term, see Citations:baseball.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

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

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Noun

baseball m

  1. baseball

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?bei?sbo?l/, [?be?i?s?bo??l]
  • Syllabification: base?ball

Noun

baseball

  1. baseball

Declension

Synonyms

  • amerikkalainen pesäpallo (archaic)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b?z.b?l/

Noun

baseball m (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of base-ball

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?be?zbo?l]
  • Hyphenation: base?ball
  • Rhymes: -o?l

Noun

baseball

  1. (sports) baseball

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • 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 2021)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Noun

baseball m (invariable)

  1. baseball
    Synonym: (rare) pallabase

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From American English baseball

Noun

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

  1. baseball (ball game)

References

  • “baseball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “baseball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From American English baseball

Noun

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

  1. baseball (ball game)

References

  • “baseball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Alternative forms

  • bejsbol

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?b?j.zb?l/

Noun

baseball m inan

  1. baseball

Declension

Derived terms

  • baseballista
  • baseballowy
  • baseballówka

Further reading

  • baseball in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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busher

English

Etymology

bush +? -er

Noun

busher (plural bushers)

  1. (US, baseball, slang) A major league baseball player who has recently come from a small league.
    • August 1952, Baseball Digest Page 37
      He was talking about me all the time that day in Boston, standing with the bat boy, making cracks. That's all right but when he called me a busher in front of the whole Yank team and then challenged me, I had to fight.

Anagrams

  • Buresh, rebush

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