English
Etymology
foot + ball
Noun
football (countable and uncountable)
- (British) (uncountable) A game in which two teams of eleven players each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball with their feet. In amateur games it may be a team of five or six, or indeed any number.
- (US) (uncountable) A game similar to rugby football in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball into each other's territory.
- (Canada) (uncountable) Canadian football .
- (Australia: Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania) (uncountable) Australian rules football.
- (Australia: New South Wales, Queensland) (uncountable) Rugby League .
- (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
- Practise of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
Synonyms
- ("football" in Britain):
- (all varieties of English) association football , soccer (all varieties of English)
- (British slang) footie
- ("football" in the US): (British) American football, (Australian) gridiron , gridiron football
- ("football" in Canada): (outside Canada) Canadian football
- ("football" in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia): footy , Aussie Rules , VFL (outdated), AFL
- ("football" in New South Wales and Queensland): footy , league
- (ball):
- (in all varieties of English and in all games called "football") ball
- (Australia: in Aussie rules and rugby) footy , pill
- (Australia: in soccer) soccerball
- (in US: American football) pigskin
Derivatives
- football hooligan
- football match
- football player
Translations
in Britain
- Catalan: futbol m
- Chinese: 足球
- Dutch: voetbal n
- French (French French): football m, foot m
- French (American French): soccer m
- German: Fußball
- Interlingua: football
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- Italian: calcio m
- Japanese: サッカー
- Slovak: futbal m
- Spanish: fútbol m, balonpié m
- Swedish: fotboll c
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in US
- Catalan: futbol americà m
- Dutch: rugby n, Amerikaans voetbal n
- French (French French) : football américain m
- French (American French) : football m
- Slovak: americký futbal m
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- Swedish: amerikansk fotboll
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in Canada
in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia)
in New South Wales, Queensland
ball
- Catalan: pilota de futbol m, pilota m
- Dutch: voetbal m
- French: ballon de football m, ballon m
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- Italian: pallone di calcio m, pallone m
- Swedish: fotboll c
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practise of any of these games
Translations to be checked
The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above, removing the numbers. The numbering is unreliable.
- Czech: kopaná f (1)
- Danish: fodbold (1); rugby (2)
- Finnish: jalkapallo (1)
- Frisian: fuotbal (1)
- Guarani: vakapi (1)
- Indonesian: sepakbola (1)
- Portuguese: futebol (1)
- Slovak: kanadský futbal m (3), futbalová lopta f (6)
- Spanish: fútbol (1)
Related terms
See also
- Wikipedia article on soccer
- Wikipedia article on American football
French
Noun
football m
- (French French) : soccer
- (French French) football américain : football
- (American French) : football
Synonym
Interlingua
Noun
football
- football (soccer)
