Home › Words › B › ballcourtballcourtballcourt means a general place (e.g. a paved yard) used to play ball games.EtymologyFrom ball + court.nouna general place (e.g. a paved yard) used to play ball gamesA large masonry structure of a type used in Mesoamerica to play the Mesoamerican ballgame.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.court 67% match — An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. vs ballcourt →backcourt 64% match — A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building. vs ballcourt →hardcourt 62% match — A tennis court having a hard surface, frequently concrete vs ballcourt →courtyard 61% match — An area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings. vs ballcourt →cortile 60% match — An internal courtyard, surrounded by walls but open to the sky vs ballcourt →ballyard 59% match — A baseball field. vs ballcourt →boxball 58% match — Any of various informal ball games or sports played with boxes, or in a box-shaped court. vs ballcourt →ballfield 58% match — Baseball playing field. vs ballcourt →