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

Fontvieille, Monaco Monaco has been home base for Verstappen since 2015, and for years the driver rented a high-end apartment in Fontvieille, the waterfront neighborhood tucked along the principality’s western edge. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2026

The collaboration was filmed around MrBeast’s home base of Greenville, North Carolina. — Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026

The acquisition includes Brakebush’s headquarters in Westfield, Wisconsin, as well as facilities in Texas, North Carolina and Wells, Minnesota — a small town 40 miles east of Hormel’s home base. — Carson Hartzog, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026

Now nearing its 26th edition, the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent have made the Belgian city film scoring’s home base. — Ben Croll, Variety, 30 Sep. 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