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Definition: Goalpost |
GoalpostNoun1. One of a pair of posts (usually joined by a crossbar) that are set up as a goal at each end of a playing field. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrival | Home, goal, goalpost; landing place, landing stage; bunder; resting place; destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport; terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal; journey's end; anchorage; (refuge). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| "Goalpost" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Goalpost" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "goalpost": goalpost-shifting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
goalpost | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "goalpost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | torpfosten (door post, gatepost). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kapufa (post). (various references) | |
Manx | maidjey dean. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oalpostgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trave (girder), poste (stake). (various references) | |
Russian | стойка ворот (goal post). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stativa. (various references) | |
Spanish | poste de puerta. (various references) | |
Thai | เสาประตู (กีฬา). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "goalpost": goalposts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "goalpost" (pronounced gō"lpō'st) |
| 4 | -p ō' s t | guidepost, lamppost, outpost, signpost, sternpost. |
| 3 | -ō' s t | almost, cohost, foremost, innermost, northernmost, outermost, overdosed, seacoast, southernmost, uppermost, utmost, westernmost. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-o-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: apologs, galoots. | |
-2 letters: apolog, galoot, galops, gloats, postal, saloop. | |
-3 letters: altos, galop, gaols, gloat, glops, glost, goals, goats, goops, logos, loops, loots, lotas, lotos, opals, plats, plots, polos, pools, sloop, sotol, splat, spool, stool, stoop, togas, tolas, tools, topos. | |
-4 letters: alps, also, alto, alts, atop, gals, gaol, gaps, gasp, gast, gats, glop, goal, goas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-o-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: apologist, goalposts. | |
+2 letters: apologists. | |
+3 letters: apologetics, colportages, pathologies, pathologist. | |
+4 letters: escapologist, gamopetalous, graphologist, haptoglobins, palynologist, papyrologist, parasitology, pathologists, promulgators. | |
+5 letters: campanologist, escapologists, graphologists, palynologists, papyrologists, parasitologic, phraseologist, planetologies, planetologist, primatologies, primatologist, prolongations, promulgations, proteoglycans, protogalaxies. | |
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