third base

Questions about third base

What does third base mean?

third base means "the base that must be touched third 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 third base?

Close synonyms include third, third. 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 third base a common word?

third 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.