home base
1
3.0
- noun
- /hoʊm beɪs/
- US
:
plato
- The runner slid safely into home base to score the winning run.
Examples
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What used to be home base is now first base.
Fiction book (2002) -
Sanchez hasn't been out of his home base for years.
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After hitting the ball, the player sprinted towards home base with excitement.
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In baseball, touching home base is essential for scoring points.
Synonyms
186
5.0
The base a runner must touch to score a run
127
7.0
A flat base where the batter stands and runners touch to score
20
3.6
A flat rubber base with five sides that a batter stands over and runners touch to score
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'main office/administrative center' is directly derivable from combining 'home' (central or primary place) with 'base' (place of operations/foundation); the compound simply denotes the base that serves as 'home' for an organization. This compositional interpretation follows regular noun–noun compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Home base comes from baseball, where the flat base a runner must touch is called 'home'. Imagine running around the field and finally touching that spot to 'score' a run, and you will remember it as the place you return to to score.