goal

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Something you are trying to achieve.

   My lifelong goal is to act in a Hollywood movie.

2. 2
   noun

   A point scored by putting the ball into the net.

   She scored the winning goal in the last minute.

3. 3
   noun

   The area or net that players try to put the ball into.

   The keeper stood in front of the goal.

From Middle English gol (“boundary, limit”), from Old English *gāl (“obstacle, barrier, marker”), from Proto-West Germanic *gailu, from Proto-Germanic *gailō (“crevice, gap”); compare the Old English's derivatives Old English gǣlan (“to hinder, delay”), and hyġegǣls (“hesitating, slow, sluggish”), hyġegǣlsa (“slow one, sluggish one”). Possibly cognate with Lithuanian gãlas (“end”), Latvian gals (“end”), Old Prussian gallan (“death”), Albanian ngalem (“to be limping, lame, paralyzed”), ngel (“to remain, linger, hesitate, get stuck”).

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