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

His food truck is one of about 15 food trucks, parked at the commissary which serves as home base. — Libby Smith, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

And then suddenly this happens and their home base in Riyadh is shut down. — Ariana Aspuru, Vox, 19 Oct. 2026

The first two movies were shot in Kansas City (also Hallmark’s home base) and Buffalo, with the NFL’s Chiefs and Bills cooperating. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026

But the couple, who’ve established their home base in Ohio, is reportedly running into some issues. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 14 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