football team
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- noun
- /ˈfʊtbɔl tim/
:
equipo de fútbol
- The local football team won the championship last year after a thrilling season.
- football teams play
- winning football team
- professional football team
Taylor Look, my man, Illinois is a good football team, bro.
- Taylor Look, my man, Illinois is a good football team, bro.
- And I, I tried out for five other football teams, including the Atlanta Falcons.
- Universities have football teams and tailgate parties.
- Why is a city like Oakland allowed to have a football team?
- And you guys's football team is the worst.
- Five of them involve the football team in this original report.
- I had those football teams give us homes and hotels.
- When the Navy football team were training there.
- They even have their own football team, Sheriff football team, like soccer, soccer, football.
- The share, like the official football team that I support is Sheriff FC.
- But she was still on that football team with your whole squad.
- The the Diamond All Stars football team were their First Division.
Examples
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I sometimes said people identify with their football teams, which I find rather bizarre.
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This is my football team.
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I remember one time my brother was in the school football team and it was Saturday morning.
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When the Navy football team were training there.
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But she was still on that football team with your whole squad.
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Five of them involve the football team in this original report.
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Way across the field, the football team is still hitting each other.
Fiction book (1995) -
On the high school football team, I was a wide receiver.
Academic text (2010) -
My great-grandfathers played on the same football team in high school around the turn of the last century.
Academic text (2011) -
Universities have football teams and tailgate parties.
Synonyms
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A group of people who work together to reach a shared goal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a group of players who play football' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'football' (the sport) and 'team' (a group of players). Regional variation in what 'football' refers to (soccer vs. American football) does not prevent a B1 learner who knows both constituents from understanding the composite meaning.
Etymology
Football team comes from the game name football, which joins foot and ball because players use their feet to kick a ball, and team, meaning a 'group of players'. So a football team is the 'group of players' who play football together.