home base

noun

plural home bases

1

: the place in which someone or something lives or operates

The company's home base is in New York.

She returned to her home base after a long month of traveling.

2

baseball : the base that a runner must touch in order to score

The runner was tagged out at home base.

3

slang + impolite : sexual intercourse

—usually used in phrases like get to home base or reach home base compare first base sense 4, second base sense 3, third base sense 3

Examples of home base in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Alex Bazzell, Unrivaled chief executive and co-founder (and Collier’s husband) told Sportico that the fundraise will facilitate expansion beyond its home base in Miami. — Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 26 Aug. 2026

The family won’t reside in the Emerald Isle full-time, but the estate will serve as a European home base for the highly influential family. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026

From there, SpaceX hopes to find a way to bring the spacecraft back to the company’s home base in South Texas. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026

Meanwhile, Meghan will continue to run her lifestyle brand, As Ever, from their new British home base, with these sources insisting that Meghan’s jam products business is thriving, Sykes also reported. — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1855, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for home base

• aerospace
• anatase
• anyplace
• commonplace
• cyberspace
• database
• diabase
• diastase
• dnase
• elastase
• fireplace
• hyperspace