'Goal' definitions:
Definition of 'goal'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; "the ends justify the means" [syn: goal, end]
noun
The place designated as the end (as of a race or journey); "a crowd assembled at the finish"; "he was nearly exhausted as their destination came into view" [syn: finish, destination, goal]
noun
Game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points
noun
A successful attempt at scoring; "the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play"
Definition of 'Goal'
From: GCIDE
- Goal \Goal\, n. [F. gaule pole, Prov. F. waule, of German origin; cf. Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus, Icel. v["o]lr a round stick; prob. akin to E. wale.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end. [1913 Webster]
- Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain. [1913 Webster]
- Each individual seeks a several goal. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A base, station, or bound used in various games as the point or object which a team must reach in order to score points; in certain games, the point which the ball or puck must pass in order for points to be scored. In football, it is a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score points; in soccer or ice hockey, it is a net at each end of the soccer field into which the soccer ball or hocjey puck must be propelled; in basketball, it is the basket[7] suspended from the backboard, through which the basketball must pass. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 4. (Sport) The act or instance of propelling the ball or puck into or through the goal[3], thus scoring points; as, to score a goal. [PJC]
- Goal keeper, (Sport) the player charged with the defense of the goal, such as in soccer or ice hockey. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'goal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aim,
- ambition,
- anchorage,
- apodosis,
- aspiration,
- basis,
- bourn,
- butt,
- by-end,
- by-purpose,
- calling,
- catastrophe,
- cause,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- coda,
- conclusion,
- consideration,
- consummation,
- crack of doom,
- culmination,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- death,
- decease,
- denouement,
- destination,
- destiny,
- doom,
- duty,
- effect,
- end,
- end in view,
- end point,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- expiration,
- fate,
- final cause,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- function,
- game,
- grand slam,
- ground,
- guiding light,
- guiding star,
- harbor,
- haven,
- hit,
- hole,
- hole in one,
- home run,
- homer,
- ideal,
- inspiration,
- intention,
- izzard,
- last,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last stop,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- lodestar,
- mainspring,
- mark,
- matter,
- motive,
- object,
- object in mind,
- objective,
- omega,
- payoff,
- period,
- peroration,
- port,
- prey,
- principle,
- purpose,
- pursuit,
- quarry,
- quietus,
- quintain,
- reason,
- reason for being,
- resolution,
- resting place,
- sake,
- score,
- slam,
- source,
- spring,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- strike,
- swan song,
- target,
- teleology,
- term,
- terminal,
- terminal point,
- termination,
- terminus,
- touchdown,
- ulterior motive,
- ultimate aim,
- use,
- vocation,
- windup,
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