footballer

«footballer» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who plays football, especially as a job — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a footballer, footballers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A footballer is a person who plays football, especially as a job. tree →

2) In the UK and most countries, football means soccer; in the USA, Canada and parts of Australia, «football» can mean American, Canadian, Australian rules football or rugby league, so a footballer can play those games. tree →

sense in the lessons

In PE, sport and news; many children want to be footballers. Phrases: «professional footballer», «famous footballer», «young footballer».

examples

• My cousin wants to be a professional footballer. tree →
• The footballer scored a header in the last minute. tree →
• The footballers ran onto the pitch. tree →
• A footballer needs good fitness and teamwork. tree →
• She is the best footballer in our school team. tree →
• Famous footballers visited the children's hospital. tree →

note

Mostly British/Irish/Australian word; Americans more often say «soccer player» or «football player». Plural «footballers».

In the corpora

• Footballers and other stars are trained to say safe, boring things, because one wrong word can become a headline.
• When a bot pretends to be a pirate or a footballer, it is still pretending; quotes it invents were never really said.
• Example: a footballer in a Liverpool youth team falls over on purpose to win a free kick.
• Scammers pretend to be famous YouTubers and footballers giving things away; check their real, official account and never send a fee.
• Zara in Johannesburg met a famous footballer at the airport and showed a blurry photo of a tall man's back.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «footballer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.