Usually means: Officials enforcing rules in sports.
Definitions Related words Phrases Mentions Lyrics History
We found 13 dictionaries that define the word umpires:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. umpires: Merriam-Webster
  2. umpires: Collins English Dictionary
  3. umpires: Vocabulary.com
  4. Umpires, umpire's, umpires: Wordnik
  5. umpires: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. umpires: Wiktionary
  7. umpires: Dictionary.com
  8. umpires: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. umpires: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. umpires: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. umpires: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. umpires: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Umpires: Sports Definitions

(Note: See umpire as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Umpire)

noun:  An official who presides over a sports match.
noun:  (tennis, badminton) The official who presides over a tennis match sat on a high chair.
noun:  (cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.
noun:  (baseball) One of the officials who preside over a baseball game.
noun:  (American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side or next to the referee on the offensive side.
noun:  (Australian rules football) A match official on the ground deciding and enforcing the rules during play. As of 2007 the Australian Football League uses three; in the past there were two or just one. The other officials, the goal umpires and boundary umpires, are usually referred to by those phrases.
noun:  (curling) The official who presides over a curling game.
noun:  (law) A person who arbitrates between contending parties.
verb:  (sports, intransitive) To act as an umpire in a game.
verb:  (transitive) To decide as an umpire.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Howard County, Arkansas, United States, named for the umpire of a baseball game.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Wright County, Missouri, United States. Origin of the name unknown.
▸ Also see umpire


Opposite:

Phrases:




Words similar to umpires

Usage examples for umpires

Idioms related to umpires

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing umpires

Words that often appear near umpires

Rhymes of umpires

Invented words related to umpires

Similar:

Opposite:

Phrases:





Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux