English · Word Candidate

baseball

/ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/

Proposed by a contributor, not yet supported by evidence.

Also seen as: baseballs

Sense 1

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective 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.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

một môn thể thao phổ biến ở Bắc Mỹ, Caribe và Đông Á, trong đó mục tiêu là đánh bóng để chạy giữa bốn điểm căn cứ

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Noun

Examples

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.

Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-08-01)

Sources & notes

Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-08-01 via kaikki.org).

Sense 2

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

The ball used to play the sport of baseball.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Quả bóng dùng để chơi môn thể thao bóng chày

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Noun

Examples

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

Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-08-01)

Sources & notes

Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-08-01 via kaikki.org).

Common questions

What does “baseball” mean?

Is “baseball” formal or informal?

No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.