American football
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- noun
- /əˈmɛrɪkən ˈfʊtbɔl/
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fútbol americano
- The actual NFL is recognized as the most famous professional American football league in the US.
- American football players
- sport like American football
- American football team
There's no difference between English football and American football.
- There's no difference between English football and American football.
- Well, there is, there is place kicking in American football.
- And as it happened, there was a guy who had been an all American football player at at Penn State.
- Just think of what American football or all of the Olympics or boxing would look like if this was the case.
Examples
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Many fans gather to watch the American football championship each year.
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We had plenty of space and my American football team won their game.
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Oh, we're just starting up a new American football team.
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Did you realize American football is popular in England now?
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The National Football League is the premier organization of American football in the United States.
Blog text (14) -
The purpose of this investigation was to study the relationship between selected psychological skills and the playing position of American football players.
Academic text (1995) -
Mr. Warsame has a soccer player's build, but since moving to Minnesota as a teenager, he has become a fan of American football.
Academic text (2017) -
Participants in the research were 230 male adolescents attending an intercollegiate skills camp for American football at a large southeastern university in the United States.
Academic text (2009) -
Schurr, Ruble, Nisbet, and Wallace (1984) studied the relationship between playing position in American football and personality.
Academic text (1995) -
My brother plays wide receiver on his college American football team.
Synonyms
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Team sport with two 11-player teams trying to move the ball into the other end zone by running or passing
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning (‘the variant of football played in the United States’) is directly derivable from combining 'American' (connected with the United States) with 'football' (a team sport). This adjective+noun composition is compositional and mirrored in many languages (e.g., fútbol americano, football américain), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the intended meaning.
Etymology
American football gets its name from older English 'football' games that were played on foot and often involved kicking, so people called that sport football; in the United States players began to carry and throw the ball more, so people added 'American' to show it was a different version from 'soccer'. That's why today American football means the U.S. game of running and passing the ball into an end zone.