home plate

noun

: a 5-sided rubber slab at one corner of a baseball diamond at which a batter stands when batting and which must be touched by a base runner in order to score

Examples of home plate in a Sentence

The runner was tagged out at home plate.

Recent Examples on the Web

Soto quickly expressed his displeasure after the home plate umpire called a third strike in the fifth inning. —Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025

Meanwhile, Jazz Chisholm Jr. was ejected by home plate umpire Mark Wegner in the middle of the ninth inning. —Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 25 June 2025

Burns started Judge with a slider near the top of the zone that home plate umpire Mark Wegner called a ball, even though MLB’s GameDay showed the pitch easily inside the zone. —C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 24 June 2025

Both were ejected after the broadcast appeared to show Schnall coming out of the dugout to argue with the home plate umpire Angel Campos. —Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 22 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1866, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for home plate

• abdicate
• abrogate
• acetate
• activate
• actuate
• adsorbate
• aggravate
• agitate
• alginate
• alienate
• allocate
• amputate

Kids Definition

home plate

noun

: the base where a baseball batter stands and which a base runner must touch in order to score