baseball
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/
The English word “baseball” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
- The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
- A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
Etymology
From base + ball.
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