goal
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡəʊl/, [ɡɒʊɫ]
- (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /ɡɐʉl/, [ɡɒʊɫ]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡoʊl/, [ɡoɫ]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊl
Noun edit
goal (plural goals)
- A result that one is attempting to achieve.
- My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie.
- 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.
- fans behind the goal
- play in goal
- (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 edit
- (a result one is attempting to achieve:) ambition, object of desire, objective, purpose, aspiration
- See also Thesaurus:goal
Derived terms edit
- 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
- goal cage
- goal celebration
- goal defence
- goal difference
- goal-directed
- goalgetter
- goalie
- goal judge
- goalkeeper
- goal keeper
- goal kick
- goalless
- goal line
- goal-line
- goal machine
- goal-orientated
- goal-oriented
- goalpost
- goal post
- goal setting
- goal shooter
- goal square
- goal-suck
- goal suck
- goaltender
- goal third
- goal umpire
- golden goal
- in goal
- in-goal
- insurance goal
- life goal
- move the goal posts
- non-goal
- Olympic goal
- open goal
- own goal
- penalty goal
- phantom goal
- shot on goal
- silver goal
- squad goal
- stretch goal
- subgoal
- touch-in-goal
Descendants edit
- → Armenian: գոլ (gol)
- → 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, gol
- → Romanian: gol
- → Russian: гол (gol)
- → Serbo-Croatian: го̑л (gȏl)
- → Slovak: gól
- → Slovene: gól
- → Spanish: gol
- → Telugu: గోలు (gōlu)
- → Turkish: gol
- → Ukrainian: гол (hol)
- → Zazaki: gol
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Verb edit
goal (third-person singular simple present goals, present participle goaling, simple past and past participle goaled)
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Anagrams edit
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
goal m (plural goals, diminutive goaltje n)
Synonyms edit
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French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
- “goal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
goal m (invariable)
- Alternative spelling of gol
Anagrams edit
Manx edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish gall (“foreigner”), from Latin Gallus.
Noun edit
goal m (genitive singular goal, plural goallyn or goaldee)
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Mutation edit
Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
goal | ghoal | ngoal |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |