Definitions for Baton

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Baton ba·ton

Spelling: [buh-ton, ba-, bat-n]

IPA: /bəˈtɒn, bæ-, ˈbæt n/

Baton is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in Baton (abnot).

Definitions for Baton

noun

1. Music. a wand used by a conductor.
2. a rod of lightweight metal fitted with a weighted bulb at each end and carried and twirled by a drum major or majorette.
3. Track. a hollow rod of wood, paper, or plastic that is passed during a race from one member of a relay team to the next in a prescribed area.
4. a staff, club, or truncheon, especially one serving as a mark of office or authority.
5. Heraldry. a diminutive of the bend sinister, couped at the extremities: used in England as a mark of bastardy. a similar diminutive of the ordinary bend.

Origin of Baton

1540-50; Middle French bâton, Old French baston Vulgar Latin *bastōn- (stem of *bastō) stick, club; compare Late Latin bastum staff

Examples for Baton

That means a lot of kids are going to come to baton Rouge and try college for a while, not like it, and leave.

You see, as far as passing the baton down, Michael used to look at Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and James Brown.

"Then give me a baton," she responded, springing to her feet.

I mean, you run the best race you can run, you hand off the baton.

As he did so, I loosed a cry of alarm and almost dropped the baton.

The Obama administration took up the baton in 2009 and has since become the most evidence-based administration in history.

Oh, I'll have to send you to the provost-martial at baton Rouge and let you settle that with him.

In his hand was a baton which he brandished demoniacally at an orchestra of his own.

But the most recent poll of the race, conducted for the baton Rouge Fox affiliate, has Landrieu ahead of Cassidy 36 to 32 percent.

Then the conductor, seeing that the incident was over, raised his baton.