What does field goal mean?

field goal means "a score in American football; a score made by kicking the ball between the opponents' goal posts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for field goal?

Close synonyms include basket. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is field goal a common word?

field goal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Field goal — meaning, 2 senses and 1 synonym

noun

2 sensesA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a score in American football; a score made by kicking the ball between the opponents' goal posts
Broaderscore
American football
2.
a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop
Synonymsbasket
Broaderscore

Questions about field goal

What does field goal mean?: field goal means "a score in American football; a score made by kicking the ball between the opponents' goal posts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

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