golf

CEFRA2

/ɡɒlf/

noun · verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A sport in which players hit a ball into holes using clubs.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Alternative letter-case form of Golf from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

Examples

  • Father was in a bad mood since he couldn't play golf because of bad weather.

  • We played golf in spite of the rain.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
2

Also pronounced

  • /ɡɒf/
  • /ɡolf/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. To play the game of golf.

  2. A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)

More examples

In context

  • Last mystery of all, he learned to golf.

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Origin

noun

The word is first known in English from the 17th century as a borrowing from Middle Scots golf, gouff. Although the etymology is uncertain, the most likely origin is that it comes from the Middle Dutch colve, colf (“club”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“club”), related to German Kolben (“piston, rod”), Swedish kolv (“piston, rod”), Old English clopp (“rock; cliff”), English kelp.