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UMPIRE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does umpire mean?
• UMPIRE (noun)
The noun UMPIRE has 2 senses:
1. an official at a baseball game
2. someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
Familiarity information: UMPIRE used as a noun is rare.
• UMPIRE (verb)
The verb UMPIRE has 1 sense:
1. be a referee or umpire in a sports competition
Familiarity information: UMPIRE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An official at a baseball game
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
ump; umpire
Hypernyms ("umpire" is a kind of...):
official (someone who administers the rules of a game or sport)
Derivation:
umpire (be a referee or umpire in a sports competition)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
arbiter; arbitrator; umpire
Context example:
an umpire was appointed to settle the tax case
Hypernyms ("umpire" is a kind of...):
evaluator; judge (an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "umpire"):
third party (someone other than the principals who are involved in a transaction)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: umpired
Past participle: umpired
-ing form: umpiring
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be a referee or umpire in a sports competition
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
referee; umpire
Hypernyms (to "umpire" is one way to...):
judge (determine the result of (a competition))
Domain category:
athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
umpirage (the act of umpiring)
umpirage (mediation by an umpire)
umpire (an official at a baseball game)
Context examples
I’ll umpire if Sir Lothian Hume will do the same, and you can hold the watch and referee, Jackson.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She had thought only of avoiding Captain Wentworth; but an escape from being appealed to as umpire was now added to the advantages of a quiet evening.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Three umpires to be chosen upon the ground, namely, two in ordinary and one in reference.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Neither to fall without a knock-down blow, subject to the decision of the umpires.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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