Meaning

5 senses
  1. One who plays a form of football.

    (New Zealand, UK)One who plays association football.

    an athlete who plays American football

  2. (Australia)One who plays Australian rules football.

  3. (Ireland)One who plays Gaelic football.

  4. (proscribed, rare)One who plays American football.

  5. Any fish in the kyphosid subfamily Microcanthinae.

Examples

65 sentences
  1. Footballers make a lot of money.

    ruФутболисты много зарабатывают. — marafon

    deFußballspieler verdienen viel Geld. — Esperantostern

  2. His little brother is a famous footballer.

    Його молодший брат - відомий футболіст. — older

    deSein kleiner Bruder ist ein berühmter Fußballspieler. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Footballers earn a lot of money.

    Футболісти заробляють багато грошей. — deniko

    deFußballspieler verdienen viel Geld. — Esperantostern

  4. He is a footballer.

    Він футболіст. — deniko

    deEr ist Fußballer. — Dejo

  5. Tom's not a footballer.

    Том не футболіст. — deniko

    ruТом не футболист. — Ooneykcall

    deTom ist kein Fußballer. — wolfgangth

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
one who plays football:
Русский
By meaning 1
one who plays football:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
one who plays football:

Origin

From football + -er. For the kyphosid sense, named for the resemblance of their stripes to

From football + -er. For the kyphosid sense, named for the resemblance of their stripes to football uniforms.

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Forms

plural: footballers
Singularfootballer
Pluralfootballers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
one who plays football:football playersoccer player
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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