soccer player
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1.1
- noun
- /ˈsɑkər ˈpleɪər/
- US
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futbolista
- I want to be a professional soccer player.
- male soccer players
- female soccer players
- elite soccer players
There's a lot of soccer players, some teachers, some doctors.
- There's a lot of soccer players, some teachers, some doctors.
- And we've got a front pod session set up for tomorrow afternoon with some soccer players, some football players.
- We talked about Justin Bieber, but then we're actually talking about famous soccer players.
- You get to interview the biggest soccer players in the world when they ask for you to be on their your show.
- Yeah, it's the, I mean, I feel I have a lot of, you know, great friends, NBA, basketball, you know, NFL, you know, soccer players.
Examples
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He was the best soccer player in Europe till he got injured.
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During the tournament, each soccer player showed great skill and teamwork.
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And ask any soccer player about that.
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So soccer players in Europe are using this at the moment.
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"How else can you become the greatest soccer player in the world?"
Fiction book (1998) -
That is right, female soccer players have finally achieved their goal.
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During the mental response, the soccer player moves his eyes, and the camera films eye movement.
Academic text (2010) -
And he's one of the best soccer players that came out of the Middle East.
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The participants were 33 male and female soccer players from a Division I southeastern university.
Academic text (2003) -
So, Robbie, I hear you're quite the soccer player.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'soccer player' is transparently compositional: 'soccer' names the sport and 'player' denotes a person who plays, so the combined meaning 'a person who plays soccer' is directly derivable. This straightforward noun + noun/person construction is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Soccer player is a simple compound name for someone who plays the sport. The word soccer began in England as a short form of the long name 'association' (from 'association football') and player means a person who plays, so together it means 'a person who plays soccer'.