Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A game played with a bat and ball by two opposing teams of nine players, each team playing alternately in the field and at bat, the players at bat having to run a course of four bases laid out in a diamond pattern in order to score.
  • noun The ball that is used in this game.
  • noun A game of darts in which the players attempt to score points by throwing the darts at a target laid out in the form of a baseball diamond.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A game of ball played by eighteen persons, nine on a side.
  • noun The ball with which this game is played.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds (four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.
  • noun The ball used in this game.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun 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.
  • noun The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
  • noun A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
  • noun a ball used in playing baseball

Etymologies

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base +‎ ball

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    I got into a conversation the other day with a guy who sold stationery for a living. He resented the players. Why?

    "They make too much money," he said.

    "What's too much?" I asked.

    "They make more in one time at bat than I do in a week."

    "Would you trade places with them?"

    "Absolutely."

    "And if someone told you you were making too much money, what would you tell them?"

    "I'd tell 'em it was none of their damn business."

    November 22, 2007