baseball

Etymology

base +‎ ball

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪs.bɔl/, /ˈbeɪs.bɑl/

• Audio (US)

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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.

See also

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Noun

baseball m

1. baseball

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbei̯sboːl/
• Hyphenation: base‧ball

Noun

baseball

1. baseball

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛz.bɔl/

Noun

baseball m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of base-ball

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbeːzboːl]
• Hyphenation: base‧ball

Noun

baseball

1. (sports) baseball

References

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Noun

baseball m (invariable)

1. baseball

Alternative forms

• bejsbol

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛjz̪bɔl/

Noun

baseball m inan

1. baseball

Further reading

• baseball in Polish dictionaries at PWN