Definition of goal

"goal" in the noun sense

1. goal, end

the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it

"the ends justify the means"

2. finish, destination, goal

the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey

"a crowd assembled at the finish"

"he was nearly exhausted as their destination came into view"

3. goal

game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points

4. goal

a successful attempt at scoring

"the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play"

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Quotations for goal

Be humanity evermore our goal. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,A Psalm Of Life ]

The immortal mind, superior to his fate.
Amid the outrage of external things,
Firm as the solid base of this great world.
Rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds!
Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on!
Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky!
Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire
Be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene,
The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck;
And ever stronger as the storms advance,
Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,
When nature calls him to the destined goal. [ Akenside ]

Live on, brave lives, chained to the narrow round
Of Duty; live, expend yourselves, and make
The orb of Being wheel onward steadfastly
Upon its path--the Lord of Life alone
Knows to what goal of Good; work on, live on. [ Lewis Morris ]

When a man becomes dear to me, I have touched the goal of fortune. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start. [ Schiller ]

Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it. [ Rückert ]

Still thou knowest that in the ardor of pursuit men lose sight of the goal from which they start. [ Schiller ]

Many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, but have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold, the mind and the power to enjoy it. [ Tupper ]

goal in Scrabble®

The word goal is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters goal:

GAOL
(21)
GOAL
(21)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word goal

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The 129 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In goal

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goal in Words With Friends™

The word goal is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters goal:

GAOL
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GOAL
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Words within the letters of goal

2 letter words in goal (3 words)

3 letter words in goal (4 words)

4 letter words in goal (Anagrams) (2 words)

goal + 1 blank (8 words)

Word Growth involving goal

Shorter words in goal

go

Longer words containing goal

goalbased

goalie goalies

goaling

goalkeeper goalkeepers nongoalkeepers

goalkeeper nongoalkeeper nongoalkeepers

goalkeeping

goalkicker goalkickers

goalkicking goalkickings

goalless

goalline goallines

goalmouth goalmouths

goalpost goalposts

goals goalscorer goalscorers

goals goalscoring

goals subgoals

goaltender goaltenders

goaltending goaltendings

goalward

nongoal nongoalkeeper nongoalkeepers

subgoal subgoals