FOOTBALL

football, football game

(noun) any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other’s goal

football

(noun) the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

football (countable and uncountable, plural footballs)

(general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.

(UK, uncountable) Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

Synonym: Thesaurus:football

(US, uncountable) American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

Synonym: Thesaurus:football

(Canada, uncountable) Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

Synonym: Thesaurus:football

(Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, uncountable) Australian rules football.

Synonym: Thesaurus:football

(Ireland, uncountable) Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.

(Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable) rugby league.

Synonym: Thesaurus:football

(Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, uncountable) rugby union.

(countable) The ball used in any game called "football".

Synonym: Thesaurus:football

(uncountable) Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.

(figuratively, countable) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner

(US military slang, countable) The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.

Synonyms: nuclear football, atomic football, black box, black bag

Coordinate term: Cheget

Hyponyms

(Terms derived from "football"):

• American football

• arena football

• association football

• Australian rules football

• Barbarian football

• blow football

• Canadian flag football

• Canadian football

• Gaelic football

• five-a-side football

• flag football

• gridiron football

• political football

• roller football

• table football

• touch football

• tackle football

Verb

football (third-person singular simple present footballs, present participle footballing, simple past and past participle footballed)

(intransitive, rare) To play football.

Source: Wiktionary

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Foot"ball`, n.

Definition: An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather. Waller.

2. The game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals. Arbuthnot.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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