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ホームベース Japanese meaning | Kotomora

ホームベース

ホ

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ム

ベ

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ス

Meanings

1

home base; home plate

Baseball term for the final base a runner must touch to score a run.

ランナーが

ホームベース

を

踏ふ

ん

で

得とく

点てん

し

た

。

The runner stepped on home plate and scored.

Related words

本ほん塁るい
ホームベース is the everyday loanword for home plate in baseball, while 本塁 is the more formal, native Japanese term used in official rules and commentary.
ホーム
ホームベース is the full baseball term for home plate, and ホーム is simply its shortened everyday form.

Built from

ホーム+ベース

Written forms

ホーム・ベース
- ホームベース
  Variant with interpunct; less common in everyday writing.
- ホーム・ベース

Etymology

Borrowed from English 'home base'.