home base

noun

1. Baseball.,  home plate.

2. home.

3. home.

Word History and Origins

Origin of home base¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

After slamming her “torpedo” into the side of the Housatonic, she reversed herself and had seemingly set course for her home base on Sullivan’s Island at the entrance to Charleston Harbor.

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While its home base was in Texas, Whole Foods’s operations were decentralized, with regional offices that catered to specific markets.

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Apparel, action figures and accessories are for sale, but Slasher World in the Fairfax neighborhood is meant to serve as a home base for horror fans, like the so-called “tape heads” at the VHS swap.

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Pacific Fleet said on X. Both aircraft had taken off from the USS Nimitz, America’s oldest aircraft carrier that is returning to its home base on the U.S.

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She and Brammall, who now consider Los Angeles their home base, were in the process of adopting their second child.

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