baseball

noun

base·​ball ˈbās-ˌbȯl 

often attributive

: a game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players each on a large field having four bases that mark the course a runner must take to score

also : the ball used in this game

Examples of baseball in a Sentence

We watched baseball on TV last night.

Recent Examples on the Web

Actually, this is one of two baseball games now well-placed in our mid-autumn sky. —Joe Rao, Space.com, 16 Nov. 2025

From baseball to the Civil War, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has highlighted the stories that have bound our nation together and tested our collective resolve. —ABC News, 16 Nov. 2025

Timmermann was also the unlikely patriarch of a three-generation baseball family. —Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025

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Word History

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing baseball

• baseball cap
• fantasy football/baseball/basketball
• inside baseball

Rhymes for baseball

• aerosol
• alcohol
• arbitral
• basketball
• butanol
• cannonball
• carbinol
• catarrhal
• cortisol
• ethanol
• fireball
• gasohol

Kids Definition

baseball

noun

base·​ball ˈbās-ˌbȯl 

: a game played with a bat and ball by two teams of nine players each on a field with four bases that mark the course a runner must take to score

also : the ball used in this game