baseball player

1. 1.

   an athlete who plays baseball

   Synonymsballplayer

   Broaderathleteplayer

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   baseball

Questions about baseball player

What does baseball player mean?

baseball player means "an athlete who plays baseball".

What is another word for baseball player?

Close synonyms include ballplayer. 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 baseball player a common word?

baseball player is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.