WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
home′ plate′, [Baseball.]
- Sportthe base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond. Also called home, the plate, home base.
- 1870–75, American.
'home plate' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Baltimore chop
- ball
- base
- baseball
- batting eye
- bunt
- catcher
- corner
- cutoff
- deep
- diamond
- fair territory
- first base
- force play
- forkball
- foul line
- home
- home base
- in
- inside
- knuckle ball
- left field
- one old cat
- outside
- plate
- pull hitter
- right field
- run
- second base
- shallow
- short
- strike zone
- third base
- triple