🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

partido de fútbol

Pronunciation / Transliteration: partido de futbol

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Soccer match/ˈsɑk.ɚ mætʃ/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Disfrutamos mucho viendo el partido de fútbol en la televisión."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A sports competition played between two teams of eleven players each, who try to kick a ball into the opposing goal.

    "Thousands of fans gathered in the stadium to watch the exciting soccer match."
  2. 2

    A regulated game of association football governed by standard international rules.

    "The referee had to stop the soccer match temporarily due to heavy rain."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'soccer', an abbreviation of association football originating in late 19th-century England from 'assoc.', and 'match', derived from the Old English 'gemæcca', meaning companion or equal. Together, the compound describes a structured contest between two opposing teams playing the sport of soccer.

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