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   Goal

   /ɡōl/

   

   noun

   • 1. (in football, soccer, rugby, hockey, and some other games) a pair of posts linked by a crossbar and often with a net attached behind it, forming a space into or over which the ball has to be sent in order to score.
   • ▪ an instance of sending the ball into or over the goal, especially as a unit of scoring in a game: "the decisive opening goal"
   • ▪ a cage or basket used as a goal in other sports.
   • 2. the object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result: "going to law school has become the most important goal in his life"
   • ▪ the destination of a journey: "the aircraft bumped toward our goal some 400 miles to the west"
   • ▪ a point marking the end of a race. literary

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘limit, boundary’): of unknown origin.

   Scrabble Points: 5

   • G

     2

   • O

     1

   • A

     1

   • L

     1

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