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 

• UMPIRE (noun)

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)

• UMPIRE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they umpire    ... he / she / it umpires   
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)