first baseman

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   (baseball) the person who plays first base

   Synonymsfirst sacker

   Broaderinfielder

   baseball · softball

Questions about first baseman

What does first baseman mean?

first baseman means "(baseball) the person who plays first base".

What is another word for first baseman?

Close synonyms include first sacker. 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 baseman a common word?

first baseman 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.