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goal

/ɡoʊl/noun1 syllable

Goal means: the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey).

Synonyms for goal3

noun, as in the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)

finish, destination

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

end

What does goal mean?4

noun

1

the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)“a crowd assembled at the finish”

2

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”

3

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

a successful attempt at scoring“the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with goal?24

Show 40 near rhymes
sonoknowgomostthosehomebotholdownshowtoldthoughhopeohpostagoknowncloselowalthoughphoneroadshowsgoescoholdgoldalonevotecodeknowsbelownotewrotegrowthcoldsoldcoachgoals

All 24 rhymes for goal, grouped by syllable

Goal in a sentence

  • It's not the final goal, but the process of getting there that matters.CK
  • The goal of education is not wealth or status, but personal development.CK
  • What's important is not the goal, but the journey.CK
  • Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.dochash
  • Your goal is to own a home before you're thirty, isn't it?Amastan
  • He set as his goal, the deposit of three million yen.unknown
  • Communism tries to overcome capitalism, but so far that goal has not been achieved.Kunstliebhaber
  • Even if it takes you three years, you must accomplish your goal.CM

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of goal

as a noun

plural
goals