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Definition: Goalkeeper |
GoalkeeperNoun1. The soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal. 2. The defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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In many team sports, the goalkeeper (sometimes goalie or keeper) is the player that is charged with preventing the opposite team from scoring by defending the goal. Such players occur in football (soccer), handball, field hockey, ice hockey and a number of other sports.Usually special rules apply to the goalkeeper that do not hold for the other players. These rules are often instated to protect the goalkeeper, being an obvious target for dangerous or even violent actions. In addition, in certain sports like ice hockey, they are required to wear special equipment like heavy pads and a face mask to protect their bodies from impact from the play object like a puck.
In football, the goalkeeper defends their team's goal and has special privileges within the game. The goalkeeper may use their hands and arms to control the ball. Once a goalkeeper has picked up the ball or has two hands firmly on it the ball is out of play and the opposing team must leave the goal area. Play then recommences when the goalkeeper passes the ball to another member of his team or kicks the ball clear of the area.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Goalkeeper."
Synonyms: GoalkeeperSynonyms: goalie (n), goaltender (n), netkeeper (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Goalkeeper |
| English words defined with "goalkeeper": body pad ♦ throat protector. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | England's goalkeeper Frank Swift, with ball, runs past Scotland's Laurie Reilly during an international soccer match, in Wembley, London. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Goalkeeper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.46% of the time. "Goalkeeper" is used about 776 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.46% | 764 | 8,991 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.54% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 776 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "goalkeeper": goalkeeper-skipper. | |
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| Language | Translations for "goalkeeper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | portier (doorkeeper, doorman, gate keeper, goalee, goalie, janitor, keeper, porter, usher). (various references) | |
Arabic | حارس المرمى (goalie, keeper). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вратар (doorkeeper, gate keeper, goalee, janitor, porter, usher, wicket keeper). (various references) | |
Chinese | 守门员 (goaltender). (various references) | |
Czech | brankář (keeper). (various references) | |
Farsi | گلر, دروازه بان فوتبال . (various references) | |
Finnish | maalivahti. (various references) | |
French | gardien de but (goalie). (various references) | |
German | torwart (goal keeper, goalie). (various references) | |
Greek | τερματοφύλακας. (various references) | |
Indonesian | penjaga gawang. (various references) | |
Italian | portiere (clerk, concierge, custodian, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeepers, goalie, janitor, porter, receptionist). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | コンマ以下 (below the decimal, cockroach, commune, connecting rod, con-rod, conversion, convert, convolution, convolve, cornrow style, ghost, ghost town, ghost writer, giving permission, go steady, goal, goal getter, goal kick, goal line, goal post, goal reached, goatability, go-cart, goggles, go-go, go-go dance, going my way, gold, gold medalist, gold rush, Goldberg, golden, golden age, golden disk, golden hour, golden time, Golden Week, golem, Gordon, gorgeous, gothic, green light, hit the goal, make the goal, of no account, prime time, traffic light). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゴールキーパー . (various references) | |
Norwegian | målvakt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oalkeepergay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guarda-redes (pt.), arqueiro (archaean, archer, bow, bowman, darter). (various references) | |
Russian | вратарь (goalee, goalie). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | golman (goal keeper, goalee, goalie, keeper). (various references) | |
Spanish | guardameta (goalie), portero (caretaker, commissionaire, concierge, doorkeeper, doorman, door's man, gatekeeper, goalie, harborer, harbourer, janitor, paddock, porter, usher), arquero (Archer, bowman, goalie). (various references) | |
Swedish | målvakt (goalie). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้รักษาประตู. (various references) | |
Turkish | kaleci (goal keeper, goalie, keeper, stumper). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "goalkeeper": goalkeepers. (additional references) | |
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"Goalkeeper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: goalkepeer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "goalkeeper" (pronounced gō"lkē'per) |
| 4 | -k ē' p er | beekeeper, bookkeeper, crowkeeper, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, groundskeeper, housekeeper, innkeeper, peacekeeper, scorekeeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper. |
| 3 | -ē' p er | minesweeper. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-k-l-o-p-r" | |
-3 letters: aerogel, keelage, kegeler, parolee, peerage, pergola. | |
-4 letters: apogee, areole, eloper, galere, galore, gaoler, keeper, kegler, leaker, leaper, parole, peeler, pelage, proleg, regale, repeal. | |
-5 letters: aglee, agree, algor, apeek, argle, argol, eager, eagle, eagre, elope, galop, gaper, gelee, glare, gleek, goral, grape, greek, grope, kelep, kreep, lager, laker, laree, large, largo, leger, leper, loper. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-k-l-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: goalkeepers. | |
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