Dictionary Entry

goal

goal is a 4-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 7 senses

Definitions

1noun
The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.
2noun
The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain.
3noun
A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts.
4noun
a successful attempt at scoring
"the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play"
5noun
game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points
6noun
the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
"the ends justify the means"
Synonyms
end
7noun
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"
Synonyms
destination finish

Synonyms

end destination finish

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in goal:

gaol gola olga

Common word forms

goals goaled goaler goaling goalless

Words from these letters

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