goal – English noun declension

English noun forms of goal

Noun: goal
Singulargoal
Pluralgoals

Sample Sentences

  • My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie.
  • His goal is to become a YouTuber.
  • She failed in her goal to become captain of the team.
  • 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. [2013 November 2, “A shrinking slice”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8860:]
  • The racers are approaching the goal.
  • fans behind the goal
  • play in goal
  • The ball rolled slowly into the goal.
  • He hit the goal 20 yards away.
  • a left-footed shot on goal
  • miss a goal
  • concede a goal
  • let in a goal
  • score a goal
  • 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. [2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2-1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English gol (“boundary, limit”), from Old English *gāl (“obstacle, barrier, marker”), from Proto-West Germanic *gailu, from Proto-Germanic *gailō (“crevice, gap”); compare the Old English's derivatives Old English gǣlan (“to hinder, delay”), and hyġegǣls (“hesitating, slow, sluggish”), hyġegǣlsa (“slow one, sluggish one”).
2. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'gol', Old English Nouns 'gǣlan', Latvian Nouns 'gals'.

Verbs referencing "goal"

Dutch Nouns goal, French Nouns goal, Italian Nouns goal, Catalan Nouns gol, Italian Nouns gol, Hungarian Nouns gól, Slovak Nouns gól, Russian Nouns гол, Ukrainian Nouns гол, Zulu Nouns igoli.