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baseball.

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.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/UK/ˈbeɪs.bɔl/US/ˈbeɪs.bɑl/US
  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.

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

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

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor. Latin basis Old French basebor. Middle English base English base Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Germanic *balluz Old English *beall Middle English bal English ball English baseball From base + ball.

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