goal
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/, /ɡɔʊl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡoʊl/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊl
Noun
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.
- The act of placing the object into the goal.
- A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the 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.
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- 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
Descendants
Descendants
- → Armenian: գոլ (gol)
- → Basque: gol
- → Belarusian: гол (hol)
- → Bulgarian: гол (gol)
- → Catalan: gol
- → Czech: gól
- → Dutch: goal
- → Esperanto: golo
- → Georgian: გოლი (goli)
- → Greek: γκολ (gkol)
- → Hungarian: gól
- → Ido: golo
- → Italian: gol, goal
- → Japanese: ゴール (gōru)
- → Korean: 골 (gol)
- → Kurdish: گۆڵ ([translit?])
- → Luxembourgish: Gol
- → Maori: kōrā
- → Persian: گل (gol)
- → Polish: gol
- → Portuguese: gol, golo
- → Romanian: gol
- → Russian: гол (gol)
- → Serbo-Croatian: gȏl
- → Slovak: gól
- → Slovene: gól
- → Spanish: gol
- → Telugu: గోలు (gōlu)
- → Turkish: gol
- → Ukrainian: гол (hol)
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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Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡoːl/, [ɡoːl]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: goal
Noun
Derived terms
- goalpaal
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡol/
audio (file)
Synonyms
- (goalkeeper): gardien de but, gardien m, portier m
- (target): but m
Further reading
- “goal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Manx
Related terms
Mutation
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. |
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