base hit

What does base hit mean?

base hit means "(baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely".

What is another word for base hit?

Close synonyms include safety. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is base hit a common word?

base hit is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for base hit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.