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football score

football score

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The number of goals or points each team has in a football game
  • noun
  • /ˈfʊtbɔl skɔr/
translation icon : marcador de fútbol
  • After the game, we checked the final football score online.

Examples

  • And over the holidays, people tend to share PCs for things like checking email or a football score online.

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  • Do you know the football score for tonight?

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  • There are some very smart people who care about football scores.

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  • We were watching the day's football scores scrolling down the television screen.

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  • They usually run the football scores on the eleven o'clock news, and if he drives fast enough he'll catch the broadcast.

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  • He has all of the Redlands High football scores dating back to 1894 and all of the coaches' names for football and rugby going back to 1901.

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  • During the match, the football score was 3-1 in favor of the home team.

  • The newspaper included a detailed report of the football scores from yesterday's games.

Synonyms

score
vsfootball score
842 1.3

The number of points earned in a game or test

is specific to counting each team's goals in that sport match
tally
vsfootball score
48 3.2

A written count of things like votes or donations

counts each team's goals in that sport rather than general record keeping

How High

high score
18 2.7
football score
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no score
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Surface Forms

football score singular
football scores plural

Morphology

football + score

The meaning 'number of points or goals in a football game' is directly and compositionally derived from 'football' (the sport) + 'score' (the number of points), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the MWE meaning. It is a straightforward noun–noun compound following common cross-linguistic patterns and therefore easily understood from its constituents.

Etymology

Football score comes from the simple image of a football game and the score board that shows how many points or goals each team has. Because people look at that board to see who is winning, the phrase means 'the number of points or goals each team has'.