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

Thomas' agent needs to place Sydney behind home plate at Dodgers games. —Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026

Crawford’s blast looked like a routine fly ball off the bat, but the ball was hit high enough to pick up the gusting winds and carried into the first row of the center field bleachers 403 feet from home plate. —Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 14 May 2026

And by the time Willie touched home plate, the Hall of Famer mistakenly ran into the Giants dugout — not the dugout of his new Mets team. —Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026

There was a delay of about 12 minutes with one out in the inning when home plate umpire Roberto Ortiz left the game after Braden Shewmake fouled a ball off his mask. —ABC News, 13 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1866, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for home plate

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

Kids Definition

home plate

noun

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