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Meaning of basipila | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B2
[baˈs̬iː.pi.la]

Definitions

  1. baseball (sport)
    declension-1, feminine, singular
  2. Equivalent to 'baseball': A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run...

Equivalents

English baseball

Examples

“Sub finem mensis Novembris nata crudelis, Roderico iuvante, suum patrem suamque matrem baculo, quo basipila (base-ball) ludentes utuntur, verberavit, percussit, interfecit et ambo sanguinem e corporibus excruciatis manantem biberunt.”
“Sunt ergo quaedam ludorum genera singulis nationibus et populis quasi propria: basipilae ludus (baseball), ut exemplum afferam, qui in Americae Foederatis Civitatibus tot admiratores studiosissimos habet, extra earum fines paene ignotus est.”
“Vel eum in vestibus suis gloriari, portantem bracas pictoris, focale in forma piscis, vestimentum laneum, et in capite pilleum rubrum basipilae—eodem tempore? Vere, "Vestis virum facit," ut aiunt!”
“Postea in civitatem Stellae Unicae migravit, in regionem frequentissimam cuius Bubulculi—qui "Turma Americana" olim appellabantur—atque Exploratores vel Lustrores¹² omnibus bene noti sunt, quibus quidem socius noster imprimis favet, quod ludus basipilae ei in potissimum cordi est.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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