home base

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [hohm beys]
- /hoʊm beɪs/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [hohm beys]
- /hoʊm beɪs/

Definitions of home base words

noun home base Baseball. home plate. 1
noun home base home (def 9). 1
noun home base home (def 8). 1
noun home base the place where a person has their home and feels comfortable 0
noun home base headquarters 0

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Origin of home base

First appearance:

before 1850

One of the 32% newest English words

An Americanism dating back to 1850-55

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Parts of speech for Home base

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Home base

home base popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 32% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data about 69% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

home base usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for home base

noun home base

dish — Slang. to gossip about: They talked all night, dishing their former friends.
home — Lord, Douglas-Home.
platter — a large, shallow dish, usually elliptical in shape, for holding and serving food, especially meat or fish.

All 3 Synonyms of home base