Illustration: On a Japanese school baseball field, the coach places the ball into the hand of the team’s leading pitcher at a tense moment. Teammates gather around him with visibly renewed confidence; the catcher is already crouching and offering his glove as a target.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

エース

eesu

ace player, leading player

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれはエースピッチャーです。

    He is an ace pitcher.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 相手あいてのエースを封ふうじ込こめれば勝機しょうきはある。

    If we can contain the opponent’s best player, we have a shot at winning.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 学習院時代がくしゅういんじだいには野球部やきゅうぶでエース兼主将けんしゅしょう、ボート部ぶでも一軍選手いちぐんせんしゅになった。

    During learning at Gakushuin, he became an ace and captain in the baseball club, and also played at the first string in the boat club.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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