baseball

• base ball (obsolete) [1800s]
• base-ball (dated)

From base +‎ ball.

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

• Audio (US):

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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.
   • 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2016, Mike Westphal, Cloud of Expectation; Book One: The In America Series, Xlibris, →ISBN:

     “Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams.

2. The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
   • 2005 April 8, Brian Greene, “One Hundred Years of Uncertainty”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The reason we have for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabilities become highly skewed, hugely favoring one outcome and effectively suppressing all others.

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

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:baseball.

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

• Category:baseball on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• baseball on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• baseball on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• baseball on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage

Borrowed from English baseball.

baseball m inan

1. baseball

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

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

baseball

1. baseball

• amerikkalainen pesäpallo (archaic)

• “baseball”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Borrowed from English baseball.

• IPA^(key): /bɛz.bɔl/

• Audio:

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baseball m (uncountable)

1. post-1990 spelling of base-ball

Borrowed from English baseball.^[1]

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

baseball (usually uncountable, plural baseballok)

1. (sports) baseball

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	baseball	baseballok
accusative	baseballt	baseballokat
dative	baseballnak	baseballoknak
instrumental	baseballal	baseballokkal
causal-final	baseballért	baseballokért
translative	baseballá	baseballokká
terminative	baseballig	baseballokig
essive-formal	baseballként	baseballokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	baseballban	baseballokban
superessive	baseballon	baseballokon
adessive	baseballnál	baseballoknál
illative	baseballba	baseballokba
sublative	baseballra	baseballokra
allative	baseballhoz	baseballokhoz
elative	baseballból	baseballokból
delative	baseballról	baseballokról
ablative	baseballtól	baseballoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	baseballé	baseballoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	baseballéi	baseballokéi

Possessive forms of baseball
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	baseballom	baseballjaim
2nd person sing.	baseballod	baseballjaid
3rd person sing.	baseballja	baseballjai
1st person plural	baseballunk	baseballjaink
2nd person plural	baseballotok	baseballjaitok
3rd person plural	baseballjuk	baseballjaik

• baseball in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.zbol/
• Rhymes: -ɛzbol

baseball m (invariable)

1. baseball

   Synonyms: (rare) pallabase, (informal) batti e corri

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

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛjz.bɔl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛjzbɔl
• Syllabification: base‧ball

baseball m inan

1. (sports, uncountable) baseball (ball game)
2. (countable) baseball bat

   Synonym: bejsbolówka

• baseball in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• baseball in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

baseball n (uncountable)

1. baseball

baseball c

1. Alternative form of baseboll

• baseball in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• baseball in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)