English
A game of soccer.
Noun
soccer (uncountable)
- association football
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1885 December 1, “Our Oxford Letter”, in The Oldhallian, page 171:- The 'Varsity played Aston Villa and were beaten after a very exciting game; this was pre-eminently the most important "Socker" game played in Oxford this term.
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1888 February 15, “Charley Symonds”, in The Oxford Magazine, page 224:- Golf is perhaps seven or eight years old in Oxford, ... football, seu Rugger, sive Soccer, not more than sixteen or seventeen.
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1890, Albert Barrère and Charles Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume 2, Ballantyne, page 275:- Socker (public schools), football played according to the Association Rules
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1987, Charles Hughes, The Football Association Coaching Book of Soccer: Tactics and Skills, London: BBC, ISBN 0563178086:
Usage notes
- football (meaning "soccer") is more commonly used in the UK.
Synonyms
- association football (UK, formal, rarely used)
- soccer football
- football (ambiguous; this term may also refer to: American football, Australian Rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, Rugby League, Rugby Union)
Derived terms
Related terms
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Translations
game
- Afrikaans: sokker (af)
- Albanian: futboll (sq) m
- Arabic: كُرَة اَلْقَدَم f (kurat al-qadam)
- Armenian: ֆուտբոլ (hy) (futbol)
- Asturian: fútbol m
- Azeri: futbol (az)
- Bavarian: Fuaßboi
- Belarusian: футбо́л (be) m (futból)
- Bengali: ফুটবল (phuţbôl)
- Bulgarian: футбо́л m (futból)
- Burmese: ဘောလုံး (my) (bhau:lum:)
- Catalan: futbol (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 足球 (zh) (zúqiú), 蹴球 (zh) (cùqiú) (rare)
- Czech: fotbal (cs) m, kopaná (cs) f
- Danish: fodbold (da) c
- Dutch: voetbal (nl) n
- Estonian: jalgpall (et)
- Finnish: jalkapallo (fi)
- French: football (fr) m (Europe), soccer (fr) m (America, Australia)
- Galician: fútbol (gl) m
- Georgian: ფეხბურთი (pexburti)
- German: Fußball (de) m
- Greek: ποδόσφαιρο (el) n (podósfairo)
- Guaraní: vakapi (gn)
- Hawaiian: Kinipopo peku
- Hebrew: כַּדּוּרֶגֶל (he) m (kadurégel)
- Hindi: फ़ुटबॉल (fuṭbol), फ़ुटबाल (fuṭbāl, fuṭbol), फुटबॉल (phuṭbol)
- Hungarian: labdarúgás (hu), futball (hu), foci (hu) (informal)
- Icelandic: fótbolti (is) m, knattspyrna (is) f
- Indonesian: sepakbola (id)
- Interlingua: football
- Irish: peil f
- Italian: calcio (it) m
- Japanese: サッカー (ja) (sakkā), 蹴球 (ja) (しゅうきゅう, shūkyū) (rare), (UK) フットボール (ja) (futtobōru)
- Kannada: ಸಾಕರ್ (sākar)
- Kazakh: футбол (kk) (fwtbol)
- Khmer: កីឡាបាល់ទាត់ (kəylaa bal toat)
- Korean: 축구 (ko) (chukgu) (蹴球 (ko)), 풋볼 (putbol)
- Kyrgyz: футбол (ky) (futbol)
- Lao: ຟຸດບານ (fut bān)
- Latvian: futbols (lv) m
- Lithuanian: futbolas (lt) m
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- Macedonian: фу́дбал m (fúdbal)
- Malay: bola sepak (ms)
- Maltese: futbol m
- Mongolian: хөлбөмбөг (mn) (hölbömbög)
- Navajo: jooł nabíznítaałí
- Norwegian: fotball (no) m
- Persian: فوتبال (fa) (futbâl)
- Polish: piłka nożna (pl) f
- Portuguese: futebol (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਫੁਟਬਾਲ (phuṭabāl)
- Romanian: fotbal (ro) n
- Russian: футбо́л (ru) m (futból), со́ккер (ru) m (sókker) (rare, US, Australia), ногомя́ч m (nogomjáč) (rare, neologism)
- Saterland Frisian: Foutbal
- Scottish Gaelic: ball-coise m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: фудбал m, ногомет m
- Roman: fudbal (sh) m, nogomet (sh) m
- Sinhalese: පාපන්දුව (pāpanduva)
- Slovak: futbal m, fotbal (sk) m
- Slovene: nogomet (sl) m
- Sotho: bolo
- Spanish: fútbol (es) m, (Mexico) futbol (es); balompié (es) m, balón-pie m; (Mexico) pambol (es)
- Swahili: soka (sw), kandanda (sw)
- Swedish: fotboll (sv) c
- Tagalog: putbol
- Tajik: футбол (tg) (futbol)
- Tatar: футбол (futbol)
- Telugu: ఫుట్ బాల్ (phuṭ bāl)
- Thai: ฟุตบอล (th) (fóot-bon)
- Tibetan: རྐང་རྩེད་སྤོ་ལོ (rkang rtsed spo lo)
- Tok Pisin: soka, kikbal
- Turkish: futbol (tr)
- Turkmen: futbol
- Ukrainian: футбо́л (uk) m (futból), копа́ний м'яч m (kopányj mʺjač)
- Urdu: فٹ بال (fuṭ bāl)
- Uzbek: futbol (uz)
- Vietnamese: bóng đá (vi)
- Welsh: pêl-droed (cy) m
- West Frisian: fuotbal (fy)
- Yiddish: פֿוסבאָל m (fusbol)
- Zhuang: cukgiuz
- Zulu: ibhola
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Verb
soccer (third-person singular simple present soccers, present participle soccering, simple past and past participle soccered)
- (Australian rules football) To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.
- 1990 Geoffrey Blainey, A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football, 2003, Black Inc. Publishing, p73.
- The rule seems to have encouraged players to soccer the ball along the ground.
- 2008, John Devaney, Full Points Footy′s WA Football Companion, page 334,
- […] West Perth seemed on the verge of victory, only to succumb by 4 points after a soccered goal from Old Easts with less than half a minute remaining.
- 2010 March 27, Michael Whiting, “Lions give Fev debut to remember”, AFL - The official site of the Australian Football League.
- Fevola showed the best and worst of his play after dropping a simple chest mark, only to regather seconds later and soccer the ball through from the most acute of angles.
References
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↑ “soccer” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
French
Pronunciation
- (Quebec) IPA(key): [sɔ.kɚ], [sɔ.kaœ̯ʁ]
Noun
soccer m (uncountable)
- (Canada, Quebec) soccer (association football)
Synonyms
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Anagrams
Association football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia