first base

Questions about first base

What does first base mean?

first base means "the base that must be touched first by a base runner in baseball". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for first base?

Close synonyms include first. 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 first base a common word?

first base is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.