See also: Baseball, base ball, and base-ball

English

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A baseball.
 
A game of baseball.

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Etymology

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From base +‎ ball.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbeɪs.bɔl/, /ˈbeɪs.bɑl/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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baseball (plural baseballs)

  1. A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
    • 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. [], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, [], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
      It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.
    • 2016, Mike Westphal, Cloud of Expectation; Book One: The In America Series, Xlibris, →ISBN:
      “Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams.
  2. The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
    • 2005 April 8, Brian Greene, “One Hundred Years of Uncertainty”, in The New York Times[1]:
      The reason we have for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabilities become highly skewed, hugely favoring one outcome and effectively suppressing all others.
  3. A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

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Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English baseball.

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baseball m inan

  1. baseball

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbei̯sboːl/, [ˈbe̞i̯s̠bo̞ːl]
  • Rhymes: -eisboːl
  • Hyphenation(key): base‧ball

Noun

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baseball

  1. baseball

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Inflection of baseball (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative baseball baseballit
genitive baseballin baseballien
partitive baseballia baseballeja
illative baseballiin baseballeihin
singular plural
nominative baseball baseballit
accusative nom. baseball baseballit
gen. baseballin
genitive baseballin baseballien
partitive baseballia baseballeja
inessive baseballissa baseballeissa
elative baseballista baseballeista
illative baseballiin baseballeihin
adessive baseballilla baseballeilla
ablative baseballilta baseballeilta
allative baseballille baseballeille
essive baseballina baseballeina
translative baseballiksi baseballeiksi
abessive baseballitta baseballeitta
instructive baseballein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of baseball (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

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French

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Borrowed from English baseball.

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baseball m (uncountable)

  1. post-1990 spelling of base-ball

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English baseball.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbeːzboːl]
  • Hyphenation: base‧ball
  • Rhymes: -oːl

Noun

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baseball (usually uncountable, plural baseballok)

  1. (sports) baseball

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative baseball baseballok
accusative baseballt baseballokat
dative baseballnak baseballoknak
instrumental baseballal baseballokkal
causal-final baseballért baseballokért
translative baseballá baseballokká
terminative baseballig baseballokig
essive-formal baseballként baseballokként
essive-modal
inessive baseballban baseballokban
superessive baseballon baseballokon
adessive baseballnál baseballoknál
illative baseballba baseballokba
sublative baseballra baseballokra
allative baseballhoz baseballokhoz
elative baseballból baseballokból
delative baseballról baseballokról
ablative baseballtól baseballoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
baseballé baseballoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
baseballéi baseballokéi
Possessive forms of baseball
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. baseballom baseballjaim
2nd person sing. baseballod baseballjaid
3rd person sing. baseballja baseballjai
1st person plural baseballunk baseballjaink
2nd person plural baseballotok baseballjaitok
3rd person plural baseballjuk baseballjaik

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References

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  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

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  • baseball in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Italian

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Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

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baseball m (invariable)

  1. baseball
    Synonyms: (rare) pallabase, (informal) batti e corri

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nb

Etymology

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From American English baseball.

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baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

  1. baseball (ball game)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

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From American English baseball.

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baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

  1. baseball (ball game)

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

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Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

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baseball m inan

  1. (sports, uncountable) baseball (ball game)
  2. (countable) baseball bat
    Synonym: bejsbolówka

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adjective
nouns

Further reading

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  • baseball in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • baseball in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

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baseball n (uncountable)

  1. baseball

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singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative baseball baseballul
genitive-dative baseball baseballului
vocative baseballule

Swedish

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baseball c

  1. Alternative form of baseboll

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