🇬🇧 Base meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A base is the main place you use to live or to do important work. It’s like your ‘home spot’ where you keep your stuff, make plans, and go back to after you’ve been out. A person’s base might be their house or apartment. A company’s base is the main office or building where their work is organized and run.

Mom calls the car our ‘mobile base’ because we apparently live there between soccer, piano, and grocery trips.

Our camping base was the tent, but the mosquitoes acted like they had already rented the place.

The theater club’s base is the dusty backstage room, where costumes, wigs, and last year’s sandwich all live together.

Our class science team chose the library as our base, mostly because it’s the closest place to the vending machine.

Ant colonies have a base called a nest, and the largest one ever found had billions of ants.

Sam's little shop was his base. He left the base to fix a broken van, telling his cat to wait at the base. On the road a storm stopped him; he called his team at the base. They returned together to the warm base, and Sam hugged the cat, glad his base was safe.

This word is at the B2 level, which means it’s used in more complex conversations and texts. It helps you discuss abstract ideas, express opinions clearly, and engage in discussions on a variety of topics, both personal and professional.

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