goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊl/
ipa: [ɡɒʊɫ]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /ɡɒl/
ipa: /ɡɐʉl/
ipa: [ɡɒʊɫ]
ipa: /ɡoʊl/
ipa: [ɡoɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: goals
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”).
Senses: examples: text: My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie.
text: His goal is to become a Youtuber.
text: She failed in her goal to become captain of the team.
text: 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.
ref: 2013 November 2, “A shrinking slice”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8860:
glosses: A result that one is attempting to achieve.
examples: text: The racers are approaching the goal.
text: fans behind the goal
text: play in goal
text: The ball rolled slowly into the goal.
text: He hit the goal 20 yards away.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
examples: text: miss a goal
text: concede a goal
text: let in a goal
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of placing the object into the goal.
examples: text: score a goal
text: 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.
ref: 2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2-1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: 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: sense: a result one is attempting to achieve:
word: ambition
word: object of desire
word: objective
word: purpose
word: aspiration
word: aim
word: end
word: goal
word: intention
word: object
word: success
word: target
word: telos
Hypernyms: word: finish
Hyponyms: word: bullseye
word: promotion
word: win
Derived terms: word: antigoal
word: any hole's a goal
word: away goal
word: basketball goal
word: captain's goal
word: consolation goal
word: distal goal
english: drop-goal
translation: drop-goal
word: drop goal
word: dropped goal
english: empty net goal
translation: empty net goal
word: empty-net goal
word: end goal
word: field goal → field goal percentage
word: ghost goal
word: goal area
word: goal attack
word: goal average
word: goalball
word: goalbound
word: goalbox
word: goal cage
word: goal celebration
word: goal defence
word: goal difference
word: goal-directed
word: goaler
word: goalfest
word: goalframe
word: goal-getter
word: goalgetter
word: goalhanger
word: goalie
word: goalish
word: goal judge
english: goal keeper
translation: goal keeper
word: goalkeeper
word: goal kick
word: goalkicker
word: goalkicking
word: goalless
alt: goalline
word: goal line
word: goal-line
word: goal machine
word: goalminder
word: goalmouth
word: goalodicy
alt: goal-orientated
word: goal-oriented
english: goal post
translation: goal post
word: goalpost → move the goalposts
word: goalscorer
word: goalscoring
word: goal setting
word: goal shooter
word: goalside
word: goalsneak
word: goalsquare
word: goal square
word: goal suck
word: goal-suck
word: goaltend
word: goaltender
word: goaltending
word: goal third
word: goal umpire
word: goalward
word: golden goal
word: in goal
word: in-goal
word: insurance goal
word: life goal
word: multigoal
word: nongoal
word: non-goal
word: Olympic goal
word: open goal
word: opening goal
word: own goal
word: penalty goal
word: phantom goal
word: ringoal
word: shot on goal
word: silver goal
word: squad goal
word: stretch goal
word: subgoal
word: supergoal
word: touch-in-goal
word: wondergoal
Related terms: word: campaign
word: cause
word: crusade
word: drive
word: movement