baseball diamond
4
2.7
- noun
- /ˈbeɪsˌbɔl ˈdaɪəˌmənd/
:
campo de béisbol
- The players lined up on the baseball diamond ready to start the game.
Examples
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Tonight, I'm just a good friend, sitting with his family on this dusty old baseball diamond in the heat of South Texas, watching the Fourth of July fireworks.
Fiction book (2001) -
Shelley remembered how Jenny walked across the baseball diamond.
Fiction book (1993) -
This is the baseball diamond -
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Look, doll, this is a baseball diamond.
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Their favorite playground sat across from a baseball diamond next to the elevated train track.
Fiction book (1990) -
Across the road, the baseball diamond has become a fenced-in lake.
Fiction book (2000) -
In the world that's supposed to be, Brian Meehan would still be on a baseball diamond this summer.
Blog text (25) -
Todd Helton has had one heck of a career on the baseball diamond.
Blog text (9) -
After school, we played a friendly match on the baseball diamond at the park.
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During the championship game, the crowd cheered as the teams took the field on the baseball diamond.
Synonyms
50
3.0
A baseball field with four bases and home plate
23
2.5
The area inside the four bases on a baseball field
12
1.2
A grassy area with a diamond-shaped infield where people play baseball
8
1.9
A place where people play baseball
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: it refers to the diamond-shaped area associated with baseball, so a learner who knows 'baseball' and 'diamond' (shape/area) can infer the referent. This noun+noun compound follows a transparent semantic pattern common across languages, making it understandable at B1 if the shape/field sense of 'diamond' is known.
Etymology
The noun baseball diamond comes from the shape of the field: the three bases and home plate make a square that looks like a diamond when seen from above. That's why it means 'the main playing area where most of the action happens'.