home base

noun

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.

Examples of home base in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Gothenburg, Volvo’s home base, is located near the Kattegat sea, halfway between the North and Baltic Seas. —Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025

Nestled deep within the twisting metaphysical narratives and international wandering of Lux is a quick trip back to home base. —Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025

Minutes from the north entrance of Joshua Tree National Park, Twentynine Palms is the perfect home base for exploring the park’s stunning rock formations, flora, and fauna. —Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025

The Wall Street Hotel New York, New York New York City is a favorite holiday destination for families for good reason, and The Wall Street Hotel serves as a good home base for exploring it all. —Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 29 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for home base

• aerospace
• anatase
• anyplace
• commonplace
• cyberspace
• database
• diabase
• diastase
• dnase
• elastase
• fireplace
• hyperspace