footballer
/ˈfʊtbɔːlə/
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British/ˈfɵtboːlə/
footballer noun: one who plays association football.
Noun
footballer (plural footballers)
- One who plays association football.
- It is footballers though, rather than commentators, presenters or pundits, who when interviewed have provided some of the best Colemanballs.2004, George Best, Scoring At Half-Time: Adventures On and Off the Pitch, →ISBN, page 259
- One who plays Australian rules football.
- One who plays Gaelic football.
- One who plays American football.
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- Any fish in the kyphosid subfamily Microcanthinae.
footballer meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Kannada
footballer in Hindi
- फुटबॉलर
footballer in Marathi
- फुटबॉलर
footballer in Urdu
- فٹ بالر
footballer in Kannada
- ಫುಟ್ಬಾಲರ್
More languagesFewer languages
- footballer in Punjabi
- ਫੁੱਟਬਾਲਰ
- footballer in Gujarati
- ફૂટબોલર
- footballer in Nepali
- फुटबलर
- footballer in Persian
- فوتبالیست futbâlist
- footballer in Myanmar
- ဘောလုံးသမား bhau:lum:sa.ma:
Examples of footballer in a sentence
- The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.
- Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
- In fact, if the footballers were too good, they are not Barclaysmen at all.
Synonyms of footballer
Forms of footballer
| plural | footballers |
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Origin of footballer
From football + -er. For the kyphosid sense, named for the resemblance of their stripes to football uniforms.
Words formed from footballer
Questions about footballer
- What does footballer mean?
- Footballer means one who plays association football.
- What is footballer in Hindi?
- Footballer in Hindi is फुटबॉलर. See Footballer meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is footballer?
- Footballer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce footballer?
- Footballer is pronounced /ˈfʊtbɔːlə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of footballer?
- The plural of footballer is footballers.
Words near footballer in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: footballer (page history and authors); footballer (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footballer (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footballer (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footballer (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footballer (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footballer (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); footballer (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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