Image:UEFA-Women's Cup Final 2005 at Potsdam 1.jpg|thumb|right|Football (UK).
Image:Vince Young scores a touchdown in the 2005 Big 12 Championship Game.JPG|thumb|right|American football.
English
wikipedia|football (word)

Etymology
foot + ball

Noun
en-noun|s|-

1. context|UK|uncountable A game in which two teams of eleven players each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball with their foot|feet. In amateur games it may be a team of five or six, or indeed any number.

#: Each team scored three goals when they played football.

1. context|US|fb|uncountable A game similar to rugby football in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

#: Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football.

1. context|Canada|uncountable Canadian football. A game played on a wide field in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

#: They played football in the snow.

1. context|Australia|Victoria|South Australia|Western Australia|Tasmania|Northern Territory|uncountable Australian rules football.
2. context|Australia|New South Wales|Queensland|uncountable Rugby League.
3. context|Australia|uncountable Term occasionally used to refer to the same game as the British definition (association football), though the official name in Australia is "soccer".
4. countable The ball used in any game called "football".

#: ''The player kicked the football.

1. Practise of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
2. context|metaphorical An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner

#: That budget item became a political football.

1. context|Ireland A field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
2. slang The nickname of the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.

Synonyms
i-c|"football" in Britain

• i-c|all varieties of English association football, soccer i|all varieties of English
• i-c|British slang footie

i-c|"football" in the US i|British American football, i|Australian gridiron, gridiron football
i-c|"football" in Canada i|outside Canada Canadian football
i-c|"football" in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia footy, Aussie Rules, VFL (outdated), AFL
i-c|"football" in New South Wales and Queensland footy, league
i-c|ball

• i-c|in all varieties of English and in all games called "football" ball
• i-c|Australia: in Aussie rules and rugby footy, pill
• i-c|Australia: in football (soccer) soccerball
• i-c|in US: American football pigskin

Derived terms
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American football
arena football
Australian rules football
Barbarian football
blow football
Canadian flag football
Canadian football
Gaelic football
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five-a-side football
flag football
football hooligan
football match
football player
footballer
footballing
foosball
futbolín
gridiron football
table football
touch football
tackle football
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Slovak: futbal m
Slovene: nogomet m
Spanish: fútbol m, futbol m italbrac|Mexico, balompié m
Swedish: fotboll c
Thai: Thai|�ุ��อล (fóot-bon)
Turkish: futbol
Welsh: pêl-droed
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Swedish: amerikansk fotboll
Thai: Thai|อ�มริ�ั��ุ��อล (àmayrígan fóot-bon)
Turkish: amerikan futbolu
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trans-top|in Canada
Frisian: Kanadeesk rugby
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Maltese: futbol Kanadiż
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trans-top|in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia
Czech: australský fotbal m
Danish: australsk fodbold
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trans-top|in New South Wales, Queensland
Danish: rugby
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trans-top|ball
Catalan: pilota de futbol m, pilota m
Croatian: nogometna lopta f
Czech: (fotbalový) mí� m
Danish: fodbold c
Dutch: voetbal m
French: ballon de foot m, ballon m
Frisian: bal
Hungarian: focilabda
Italian: pallone m, palla da calcio m, palla f, pallone da calcio m
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Korean: �구공 (chukgugong)
Maltese: ballun
Portuguese: bola de futebol f
Scots: fitbaw
Slovak}}: futbalová lopta f
Slovene: nogometna žoga f
Swedish: fotboll c
Turkish: futbol topu
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trans-top|practise of any of these games
Danish: fodbold, fodboldspil
Dutch: voetballen n
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Frisian: fuotbalje
Scots: fitbaw
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Translations to be checked

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ttbc|Guarani: vakapi (1)
ttbc|Slovak: kanadský futbal m (3)

See also
:Category:Football (Soccer)|Category:Football (Soccer) for a list of terms used in football/soccer.
pedialite|Football
pedialite|American football
Translations of football (soccer) terms

French

Etymology
From E.|fr.

Pronunciation
IPA|/fut.b�l/, SAMPA|/fut.bOl/

Noun
fr-noun|m

1. European French soccer
2. European French American football
3. Quebec American football

Synonyms
sense|soccer qualifier|colloquial foot
sense|American football football américain

Interlingua

Etymology
From E.|ia.

Noun
ia-noun|-

1. #English|football i|soccer

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