home plate

1. 1.

   (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

   “he ruled that the runner failed to touch home”

   Synonymshome basehomeplate

   Broaderbase

   baseball

Questions about home plate

What does home plate mean?

home plate means "(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score".

What is another word for home plate?

Close synonyms include home base, home, plate. 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 home plate a common word?

home plate 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.