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31football — noun 1 (U) BrE a game played by two teams of eleven players who try to kick a round ball into their opponents goal (3); soccer (3): watching football on TV | a football club 2 (U) AmE a game played by two teams of eleven players who carry or kick …
32football — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A sport] Syn. American football, Association football, rugby, soccer, the pigskin sport*, grid game*, gridiron pastime*. 2. [The ball used in football] Syn. regulation football, pigskin*, oval*, inflated oval*, apple*,… …
33football — noun Date: 15th century 1. any of several games played between two teams on a rectangular field having two goalposts at each end and whose object is to get the ball over a goal line or between goalposts by running, passing, or kicking: as a.… …
34football — /ˈfʊtbɔl / (say footbawl) noun 1. any game in which the kicking of a ball has a large part, as Australian Rules, Rugby Union, Rugby League, soccer, American football, etc. 2. Chiefly WA, SA, Victoria and Tasmania Australian Rules football. 3. NSW …
35football — n. & v. n. 1 any of several outdoor games between two teams played with a ball on a pitch with goals at each end, esp. = Association Football. 2 a large inflated ball of a kind used in these. 3 a topical issue or problem that is the subject of… …
36football — Traditional football games had virtually no rules, no limit on the number of players, and goals, if they existed at all, could be a mile or more apart. In most cases, the opposing sides were drawn from different parts of the town or from… …
37FOOTBALL — n. m. Terme emprunté de l’anglais : Balle au pied. Il désigne un jeu composé de deux équipes où un ballon doit être envoyé à un but déterminé et où il est interdit de se servir des mains. On distingue le football association du football rugby où… …
38football — noun 1》 any of a number of forms of team game involving kicking a ball, in particular (in the UK) soccer or (in the US) American football. 2》 a large inflated ball used in such a game. 3》 a topical issue that arouses controversy: the use of… …
39football*/*/ — [ˈfʊtbɔːl] noun 1) [U] British a game in which two teams of 11 players kick a ball and try to score goals Syn: soccer 2) [C] a ball used for playing football 3) [U] American american football …
40Football — The chronicler monk who wrote the Miracles of King Henry VI described (c.1365 70) football in these terms: The game . . . for common recreation is called by some the foot ball game. It is one in which young men, in country sport, propel a huge… …
