Definition of BASEBALL

baseball

Plural: baseballs

Noun

  • A game played with a bat, ball, and bases.
  • a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
    • "he played baseball in high school"
    • "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"
  • a ball used in playing baseball
  • A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, 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.
  • The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
  • A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

Examples

  • He hit a home run on the Words with Friends board by playing BASEBALL.

Origin / Etymology

From base + ball.

Synonyms

baseball game

Scrabble Score: 12

baseball: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
baseball: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
baseball: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

baseball: valid Words With Friends Word