Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun home_plate

1 sense of home plate

Sense 1
home plate, home base, home, plate -- ((baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home")
       => base, bag -- (a place that the runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag")