"softball" meaning in French

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Bananax47-softball.wav Forms: softballs [plural], soft-ball [alternative], soft ball [alternative]
Etymology: Borrowed from English softball. Etymology templates: {{bor+|fr|en|softball}} Borrowed from English softball Head templates: {{fr-noun|m|~}} softball m (countable and uncountable, plural softballs)
  1. (sports) softball (“sport”): a variant of baseball Tags: countable, masculine, uncountable Hypernyms (sport): sport
    Sense id: en-softball-fr-noun-yH5kfAYJ Categories (other): Sports, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'sport': 60 40
  2. (sports) softball (“ball”): a ball used in the sport of softball Tags: countable, masculine, uncountable Synonyms (ball): balle de balle de molle [feminine], balle de balle-molle [feminine], balle de soft-ball [feminine] Hypernyms (ball): balle
    Sense id: en-softball-fr-noun-1Ck9Z90A Categories (other): Sports, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'ball': 11 89 Disambiguation of 'ball': 11 89
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: balle de molle [feminine], balle molle [feminine]

Alternative forms

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