soccer
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- noun
- /ˈsɑːkər/
- US
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fútbol
- During the summer, we often attend soccer matches at the local stadium.
- play soccer
- a soccer team
- a soccer player
He said you didn't play soccer, but you learn from those who do.
- He said you didn't play soccer, but you learn from those who do.
- So seriously that the gym teacher and soccer coach was a former Olympian.
- Then we had football, baseball, basketball, track, soccer, as well as cheer.
- I think we're going to go play bubble soccer, all right.
- You know, say when we watch soccer as Americans, it's boring.
- I like to play football, soccer, basketball too.
- I think soccer, I'll put my kid in soccer.
- And he set up a soccer team with all deaf kids.
- If like football in the UK, soccer is anything to go by.
- They left me to find Hudson soccer bag to feed their kids lunch.
Examples
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Don Pietro even finds time to play soccer with his young flock.
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The first time it happened, I was in seventh grade, warming up for a soccer tournament.
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I mean, he played soccer in college.
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Guys, I said no playing soccer in the house.
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Oh, I got to go pick up my kids from soccer.
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I used to play soccer.
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An away goal in soccer counts more than a home goal.
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They come to watch soccer games.
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They have a little girl, and she loves soccer.
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Apparently, parents of participating children feel soccer participation is very important in their children's lives.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
A team sport where two teams of eleven kick a ball into the other team's goal
Compounds
- US
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An area of grass or artificial grass marked for playing soccer with goalposts
How Physical
Surface Forms
Morphology
soccer = association + football (opaque) = assoc + er
Formed from a clipped colloquial form of 'association' plus the slangative '-er' (assoc → assoc-er → soccer); this derivation and its link to the sport is not transparent to typical learners.
Etymology
Soccer comes from the word association, which means 'joining together'. At British schools they shortened association to assoc. and added a playful -er, turning it into soccer, and that is why the name refers to association football, the game played mostly with the feet.