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scorer

scorer noun: one who scores.

Noun

scorer (plural scorers)

  1. One who scores.
    • Alan Shearer finished among the top ten goal scorers in 10 out of his 14 seasons in the Premier League and won the top scorer title three times..
    • But chances were rare for the lowest scorers in the Premier League against a Newcastle defence which claimed a fourth straight clean sheet.2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport
  2. One who keeps track of scores in a game; a scorekeeper.
    • The team was making goals so fast the scorer could barely keep up.
    • The comment may be offered here that the 'heavies' have been the Design Award's principal scorers, both in the overall bronze plaque days and, since, in the Daily/Sunday Class 1.1973, Allen Hutt, The changing newspaper, page 151
  3. Either of a pair of people, one provided by each side, who record in a specially formatted book, every ball bowled, every run scored, and every wicket that falls

Proper noun capitalized: Scorer

Scorer (plural Scorers)

  1. A surname from Middle English.

scorer meaning in Tamil

scorer in Tamil

கணக்கிடுநர்

Examples of scorer in a sentence

  • On our website you can keep tabs of the top scorers in Europe’s major leagues.
  • England's top scorers in the World Championship games were NN and MM.
  • Jude Bellingham has blossomed into a clinical scorer since joining Real Madrid.

All 18 example sentences with scorer

Forms of scorer

Noun
pluralscorers
Proper noun
pluralScorers

Plural of scorer: scorers

Origin of scorer

From score + -er.

From Middle English.

Words formed from scorer

Questions about scorer

What does scorer mean?
Scorer means one who scores.
What is scorer in Tamil?
Scorer in Tamil is கணக்கிடுநர். See Scorer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is scorer?
Scorer can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of scorer?
The plural of scorer is scorers.

Words near scorer in the dictionary

  1. scorelessness
  2. scoreline
  3. scorelines
  4. scorepad
  5. scorepads
  6. scorer
  7. scorereader
  8. scorereaders
  9. scorers
  10. scores
  11. scores off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scorer (page history and authors); Scorer (page history and authors); scorer (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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