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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

English

Etymology

fore- +? hand

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??hænd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /f???hænd/

Noun

forehand (plural forehands)

1. (racket sports) A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke.
2. (disc sports) A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger.
3. All of the part of a horse which is before the rider.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

4. (archaic) The chief or most important part.
5. Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
6. (surfing) The hand towards the front of the board.

Synonyms

• (kind of throw in sports): flick

Antonyms

• backhand

Translations

Adjective

forehand (not comparable)

1. Beforehand; paid in advance.

   a forehand rent

Antonyms

• afterhand

Verb

forehand (third-person singular simple present forehands, present participle forehanding, simple past and past participle forehanded)

1. (transitive) To strike with a forehand stroke.