Definitions for goal

• Definition
• Anagrams (33)

goal goal

Spelling: [gohl]

IPA: /goʊl/

Goal is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in goal (aglo).

Definitions for goal

noun

1. the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
2. the terminal point in a race.
3. a pole, line, or other marker by which such a point is indicated.
4. an area, basket, cage, or other object or structure toward or into which players of various games attempt to throw, carry, kick, hit, or drive a ball, puck, etc., to score a point or points.
5. the act of throwing, carrying, kicking, driving, etc., a ball or puck into such an area or object.
6. the score made by this act.

Origin of goal

1275-1325; Middle English gol boundary, limit; compare Old English gǣlan to hinder, impede

Examples for goal

So it was all the way, and he gave a glad shout as he touched the goal post.

For a race which has the infinite as its goal the word must be on and on.

Now they were near the goal, and Leotichides was still leading by a stride.

So however detailed the statistics of the battlefield are, they cannot achieve the goal.

The goal is to create a literary anatomy of the last century—or, to be precise, from 1900 to 2014.

He was more than usually polite to the major: he was in the army, the goal of his aspiration!

His goal: to make the perfect (and absolutely comfortable) high-heel, with the help from Nike CEO Mark Parker.

His goal of coming across as humble subtracts from his ability to share just exactly how he became so great at such a young age.

Yet he had not arrived, and John was at the goal before him.

So, as far as Mexican officials like Peña Nieto are concerned, the goal is to keep their countrymen here — and keep them happy.