American football
American football noun: a team sport similar to rugby football, played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
Noun
American football (countable and uncountable, plural American footballs)
- A team sport similar to rugby football, played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
- Chain mail, or an American football suit—that's what you'll want.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Try your Luck with Professor Challenger’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 27
- The ball used to play the sport of American football.
- Synonyms:
- American handegg, feetsball, handegg, NFL
American football meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
American football in Hindi
- American football
- अमेरिकी फ़ुटबॉल amerikī fuṭbŏl
American football in Tamil
- American football
- அமெரிக்கக் கால்பந்தாட்டம் amerikkak kālpantāṭṭam
American football in Marathi
- American football
- अमेरिकन फुटबॉल amerikan phuṭbŏl
American football in Urdu
- American football
- امریکی فٹ بال
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- American football in Malayalam
- അമേരിക്കൻ ഫുട്ബോൾ amērikkaṉ phuṭbōḷ
- American football in Kannada
- ಅಮೇರಿಕದ ಫುಟ್ಬಾಲ್ amērikada phuṭbāl
- American football in Gujarati
- ફૂટબોલ phūṭbol
- American football in Tagalog
- amerikanong putbol
- American football in Arabic
- كُرَة الْقَدَم الْأَمْرِيكِيَّة, الكُرة الأَمْرِيكِيّة, الأَمِرِيكَان فُوتْبُول al-ʔamirīkān futbōl
- American football in Malay
- bola sepak Amerika
- American football in Persian
- فوتبال آمریکایی
- American football in Thai
- อเมริกันฟุตบอล à-mee-rí-gan fút-bɔn
- American football in Vietnamese
- bóng bầu dục
Synonyms of American football
Forms of American football
| plural | American footballs |
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Words formed from American football
Questions about American football
- What does American football mean?
- American football means a team sport similar to rugby football, played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
- What is American football in Hindi?
- American football in Hindi is अमेरिकी फ़ुटबॉल (amerikī fuṭbŏl). See American football meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is American football?
- American football is a noun.
- What is the plural of American football?
- The plural of American football is American footballs.
Words near American football in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: American football (page history and authors); ફૂટબોલ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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