Meanings
plural home plates
- ball gamesA flat, pentagonal, rubber object placed at the center of the batter's box, which is used as a basis for judging pitched strikes and balls, and the touching of which by a runner advancing from or past third base scores a run.
Synonyms: home base
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA flat, pentagonal, rubber object placed at the center of the batter's box, which is used as a basis for judging pitched strikes and balls, and the touching of which by a runner advancing from or past third base scores a run.
More synonyms by meaning
noun(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian хоум база
- хоум база (houm baza)pentagonal rubber object
Catalan base de meta
- base de metapentagonal rubber object
Chinese Mandarin 本壘 /本垒
- 本壘 /本垒 (běnlěi)pentagonal rubber object
Czech domácí meta
- domácí metapentagonal rubber object
Dutch thuishonk
- thuishonkpentagonal rubber object
Esperanto hejmplato
- hejmplatopentagonal rubber object
Estonian kodumärk
- kodumärkpentagonal rubber object
Finnish kotipesä, lautanen
- kotipesäpentagonal rubber object
- lautanenpentagonal rubber object
French marbre
- marbrepentagonal rubber object
Italian casa base
- casa basepentagonal rubber object
Japanese 本塁, ホームベース
- 本塁 (honrui)pentagonal rubber object
- ホームベース (hōmu bēsu)pentagonal rubber object
Korean 본루, 홈 베이스
- 본루 (bollu)pentagonal rubber object
- 홈 베이스 (hom beiseu)pentagonal rubber object
Māori pūrei kāinga
- pūrei kāingapentagonal rubber object
Russian дома́шняя ба́за
- дома́шняя ба́за (domášnjaja báza)pentagonal rubber object
Spanish home
- homepentagonal rubber object
Cite this entry
home plate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/home%20plate
“home plate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/home%20plate. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “home plate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/home%20plate.
Source: home plate on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.