baseball

base +‎ ball

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

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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.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:baseball.

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

Borrowed from English baseball.

baseball m

1. baseball

Borrowed from English baseball.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbei̯sboːl/, [ˈbe̞i̯s̠bo̞ːl]
• Hyphenation: base‧ball

baseball

1. baseball

• amerikkalainen pesäpallo (archaic)

Borrowed from English baseball.

• IPA^(key): /bɛz.bɔl/

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baseball m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of base-ball

Borrowed from English baseball.[1]

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

baseball

1. (sports) baseball

• baseballsapka

Borrowed from English baseball.

baseball m (invariable)

1. baseball

• pallabase (rare)

From American English baseball

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

1. baseball (ball game)

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

From American English baseball

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

1. baseball (ball game)

• “baseball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• bejsbol

Borrowed from English baseball.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛj.zbɔl/

baseball m inan

1. baseball

• baseballista
• baseballowy
• baseballówka

• baseball in Polish dictionaries at PWN