second base

1. 1.

   the base that must be touched second by a base runner in baseball

   Broaderbase
2. 2.

   the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield

   Synonymssecond

   Broaderposition

   Part ofbaseball team

Questions about second base

What does second base mean?

second base means "the base that must be touched second by a base runner in baseball". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for second base?

Close synonyms include second. 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 second base a common word?

second base 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.