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say it: VAH-lee-bawl
volleyball is a noun meaning "a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands". It is pronounced /ˈvɑliˌbɔl/ — VAH-lee-bawl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands
an inflated ball used in playing volleyball
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for volleyball come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.