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Definition of Soccer

1. Noun. A football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal.

Definition of Soccer

1. Noun. (chiefly North America Australia Ireland NZ South Africa) a game in which two teams of eleven players contend to get a round ball into their opponent's goal primarily by kicking the ball with their feet ¹

2. Verb. (context: Australian rules football) To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Soccer

1. a type of ball game [n -S]

Medical Definition of Soccer

1. A game in which a round inflated ball is advanced by kicking or propelling with any part of the body except the hands or arms. The object of the game is to place the ball in opposite goals. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Soccer

Literary usage of Soccer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Costa Rica by Bruce Conord, June Conord (2006)
"soccer is the national sport, with 12 teams in the Primera Division that play ... Happily for us, the soccer rivalry between the United States and Costa ..."

2. State of the Nation: South Africa 20052006 by Sakhela Buhlungu (2006)
"The troubled state of South African soccer Merryman Kunene South Africa's winning of the right to host soccer's World Cup in 2010 was received by the nation ..."

3. Adventure Guide Honduras & the Bay Islands by Maria Fiallos (2006)
"soccer War In 1969, a four-day war between Honduras and El Salvador, which was sparked by ... It was dubbed by the international press as the "soccer War. ..."

4. The Book of Athletics by Paul Withington (1914)
"In the South, soccer has been recently taken up by Lehigh, Franklin and Marshall, Stevens, and Delaware; in the East, besides those already mentioned, ..."

5. Yale Sheffield Monthly by Yale University, Sheffield Scientific School (1912)
"soccer, THE COMING GAME Clyde Martin. TO even the casual observer it is evident ... Among the sports finding favor with the athletic officials is soccer or ..."

6. The Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912 by James Edward Sullivan (1912)
"Amateur Association foot ball, better known in this country by the name of soccer, by its inclusion in the Fifth Olympian games held at Stockholm, Sweden, ..."

7. Growing Readers: Units of Study in the Primary Classroom by Kathy Collins (2004)
"There must have been a lot of us sisters watching our brothers play because the following year a girls' soccer team was started in our town. ..."

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