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

Hart’s primary home base is a little closer to the Knicks’ home court. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2026

Rosenthal led with about 57% statewide and about 58% in French’s home base of Tarrant County, where French served as GOP chair. — Star-Telegram Staff. Produced With Ai Assistance, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Nov. 2026

But despite problems with various races in certain years, the Q Poll has had numerous accurate results in the past in both its home base of Connecticut and around the country. — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026

Employees got into the Duke fun, too, showing a sense of pride in the character and its relationship to their home base. — Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 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