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See also: Goal
English
Etymology
From Middle English gol (“boundary, limit”), from Old English *gāl (“obstacle, barrier, marker”), suggested by its derivatives Old English gǣlan (“to hinder, delay, impede, keep in suspense, linger, hesitate, dupe”), and hyġegǣls (“hesitating, slow, sluggish”), hyġegǣlsa (“slow one, sluggish one”). Possibly cognate with Lithuanian gãlas (“end”), Latvian gals (“end”), Old Prussian gallan (“death”), Albanian ngalem (“to be limping, lame, paralyzed”), ngel (“to remain, linger, hesitate, get stuck”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡəʊl/, [ɡɒʊɫ]
- (doll–dole merger) IPA(key): /ɡɒl/
- (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /ɡɐʉl/, [ɡɒʊɫ]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡoʊl/, [ɡoɫ]
- Rhymes: -əʊl
Noun
goal (plural goals)
- A result that one is attempting to achieve.
- My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie.
- His goal is to become a Youtuber.
- She failed in her goal to become captain of the team.
- 2013 November 2, “A shrinking slice”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8860:
- The goal should be to strengthen workers without hamstringing firms. Growth, rather than employment protection, is the priority. More work means a stronger labour market, which would bid up employees’ slice, as it did in America in the 1990s when unemployment was at record lows.
- (sports) In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
- The racers are approaching the goal.
- fans behind the goal
- play in goal
- The ball rolled slowly into the goal.
- He hit the goal 20 yards away.
- (sports) The act of placing the object into the goal.
- miss a goal
- concede a goal
- let in a goal
- A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
- score a goal
- 2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2-1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport:
- The former Forest man, who passed a late fitness test, appeared to use Guy Moussi for leverage before nodding in David Fox's free-kick at the far post - his 22nd goal of the season.
- (linguistics, grammar) A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
Synonyms
- (a result one is attempting to achieve:) ambition, object of desire, objective, purpose, aspiration
- See also Thesaurus:goal
Derived terms
English terms starting with “goal”
- antigoal
- any hole's a goal
- away goal
- basketball goal
- captain's goal
- consolation goal
- distal goal
- drop goal (drop-goal)
- dropped goal
- empty-net goal (empty net goal)
- end goal
- field goal → field goal percentage
- ghost goal
- goal area
- goal attack
- goal average
- goalball
- goalbound
- goalbox
- goal cage
- goal celebration
- goal defence
- goal difference
- goal-directed
- goaler
- goalfest
- goalframe
- goal-getter, goalgetter
- goalhanger
- goalie
- goalish
- goal judge
- goalkeeper (goal keeper)
- goal kick
- goalkicker
- goalkicking
- goalless
- goal line (goalline), goal-line
- goal machine
- goalminder
- goalmouth
- goalodicy
- goal-oriented (goal-orientated)
- goalpost (goal post) → move the goalposts
- goalscorer
- goalscoring
- goal setting
- goal shooter
- goalside
- goalsneak
- goalsquare
- goal square
- goal suck, goal-suck
- goaltend
- goaltender
- goaltending
- goal third
- goal umpire
- goalward
- golden goal
- in goal, in-goal
- insurance goal
- life goal
- multigoal
- nongoal
- non-goal
- Olympic goal
- open goal
- opening goal
- own goal
- penalty goal
- phantom goal
- ringoal
- shot on goal
- silver goal
- squad goal
- stretch goal
- subgoal
- supergoal
- touch-in-goal
- wondergoal
Descendants
Descendants
- → Armenian: գոլ (gol)
- → Azerbaijani: qol
- → Basque: gol
- → Belarusian: гол (hol)
- → Bulgarian: гол (gol)
- → Catalan: gol
- → Central Kurdish: گۆڵ (goll)
- → Czech: gól
- → Dutch: goal
- → Esperanto: golo
- → French: goal
- → Galician: gol
- → Georgian: გოლი (goli)
- → Greek: γκολ (gkol)
- → Hungarian: gól
- → Ido: golo
- → Indonesian: gol
- → Italian: gol, goal
- → Japanese: ゴール (gōru)
- → Korean: 골 (gol)
- → Luxembourgish: Gol
- → Maori: kōrā
- → Persian: گل (gol)
- → Polish: gol
- → Portuguese: golo
- → Romanian: gol
- → Russian: гол (gol)
- → Serbo-Croatian: го̑л (gȏl)
- → Slovak: gól
- → Slovene: gól
- → Spanish: gol
- → Swahili: goli
- → Telugu: గోలు (gōlu)
- → Turkish: gol
- → Ukrainian: гол (hol)
- → Zazaki: gol
Translations
result one is attempting to achieve
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in many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object
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(sport) act of placing the object into the goal
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point(s) scored
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Verb
goal (third-person singular simple present goals, present participle goaling, simple past and past participle goaled)
Translations
to score a goal
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Anagrams
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Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
goal m (plural goals, diminutive goaltje n)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- goalpaal
- strafschopgoal
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
goal m (plural goals)
- goalkeeper especially in soccer and polo
- Synonyms: gardien de but, gardien m, portier m
- (rare) target in those sports
- Synonym: but m
Further reading
- “goal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Noun
goal m (invariable)
- alternative spelling of gol
Anagrams
Manx
Etymology
From Middle Irish gall (“foreigner”), from Latin Gallus.
Noun
goal m (genitive singular goal, plural goallyn or goaldee)
Related terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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