nonfootball

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adjective

Not football

“Our college seldom honors nonfootball athletes.”

OriginEnglish football ← Middle English fotbal ← Old English *beall →
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Meanings

adjectivenonfootball (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot football

    Our college seldom honors nonfootball athletes.

Origin

  1. Englishnon-
  2. Middle Englishfot
  3. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
  4. Proto-Germanic*balluz
  5. Old English*beall
  6. Middle Englishbal
  7. Middle Englishfotbal
  8. Englishfootball
  9. Englishnonfootball

From non- + football.

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Cite this entry
APA

nonfootball. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonfootball

MLA

“nonfootball.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonfootball. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonfootball,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonfootball.

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