baseball

CEFRA1

/ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A sport in which teams hit a ball and run around bases.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • He as well as you likes baseball.

  • We would play baseball after school in those days.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The ball used to play the sport of baseball.

  2. 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.

More examples

In context

  • We students all like baseball.

  • 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.

Quick test

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Origin

noun

From base + ball.