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say it: gohl
goal is a noun meaning "the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it". It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for goal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.