Synonyms for soccer

Grammar : Noun

Spell : sok-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɒk ər

Définition of soccer

Origin : 1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang (with jocular formation -er (3)), from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); cf. rugger. An unusual method of formation, but those who did it perhaps shied away from making a name out of the first three letters of Assoc.

As in football : noun a sport

Example sentences :

He also loathed the betting element that defiled the Soccer game.
Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.

We had a "soccer" team, a "rugger" team, and a cricket eleven.
Extract from : « The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) » by Fred W. Ward

And, indeed, soccer was not at all popular for some time afterward.
Extract from : « The Book of Dragons » by Edith Nesbit

Soccer is one of the relatively few English experiments in ellipsis.
Extract from : « The American Language » by Henry L. Mencken

Being able to run so fast, I might have been very good on the track team or at soccer.
Extract from : « The Biography of a Rabbit » by Roy Benson

Charles was only a Soccer Blue (and a goal-keeper at that), and Eric won.
Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, December 22, 1920 » by Various

This college should make "soccer" football one of its major sports.
Extract from : « The Making of Arguments » by J. H. Gardiner

Our soccer team was made up almost entirely of men who had been professional players.
Extract from : « Life in a Tank » by Richard Haigh

When certain African tribes adopted the modern game of soccer, they placed it in the context of their rituals.
Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin

Soccer, even football, are sequential: the aim is to score higher than the opposing team.
Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin

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