Usually means: Objective or aim to achieve.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word goal:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. goal: Merriam-Webster
  2. goal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. goal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. goal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. goal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Goal, goal: Wordnik
  7. goal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. goal: Wiktionary
  9. goal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. goal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. goal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Goal, goal: Dictionary.com
  13. goal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. goal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GOAL (organization), Goal (disambiguation), Goal (football), Goal (hockey), Goal (ice hockey), Goal (movie), Goal (sport), Goal (sports), Goal (website), Goal, The Goal (film), The Goal (novel), The Goal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Goal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. goal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. goal: Rhymezone
  19. goal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. goal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. goal: FreeDictionary.org
  22. goal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. goal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. goal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. goal: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Goal: Lexicon of Linguistics
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. GOAL: Accounting Glossary
  4. Goal: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. goal: Legal dictionary
  6. Goal: Financial dictionary
  7. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. goal: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Goal: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. goal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Goal: Glossary of Medical Education Terms
  3. goal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. GOAL: Acronym Finder
  4. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. goal: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Goal: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. goal, goal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Goal, goal: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Goal: Sports Definitions

(Note: See goaling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A result that one is attempting to achieve.
noun:  (sports) In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
noun:  (sports) The act of placing the object into the goal.
noun:  A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
noun:  (linguistics, grammar) A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
verb:  (Gaelic football, Australian rules football) To score a goal.

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