scorer

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noun

One who scores.

“The team was making goals so fast the scorer could barely keep up.”

Less commonScrabble 8

Meanings

scorer1

nounscorer (plural scorers)

plural scorers

  1. One who scores.

    Alan Shearer finished among the top ten goal scorers in 10 out of his 14 seasons in the Premier League and won the top scorer title three times..

    1 more example

    But chances were rare for the lowest scorers in the Premier League against a Newcastle defence which claimed a fourth straight clean sheet.

    2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport
  2. One who keeps track of scores in a game; a scorekeeper.

    The team was making goals so fast the scorer could barely keep up.

    1 more example

    The comment may be offered here that the 'heavies' have been the Design Award's principal scorers, both in the overall bronze plaque days and, since, in the Daily/Sunday Class 1.

    1973, Allen Hutt, The changing newspaper, page 151
  3. ball gamesEither of a pair of people, one provided by each side, who record in a specially formatted book, every ball bowled, every run scored, and every wicket that falls

Scorer2

proper nounScorer (plural Scorers)

plural Scorers

  1. A surname from Middle English.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounan official who records the score during the progress of a game

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

scorer · noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-
  2. Proto-Germanic*skurō
  3. Old Norseskor
  4. Old Englishscoru
  5. Middle Englishscore
  6. Englishscore
  7. Englishscorer

From score + -er.

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Scorer · proper noun

From Middle English.

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Translations

Catalan golejador
  • golejadorone who scores
Finnish maalintekijä
  • maalintekijäone who scores
French buteur, buteuse
  • buteurone who scores
  • buteuseone who scores
  • scoreurone who scores
German Torschütze
  • Torschützeone who scores
Spanish pichichi, goleador
  • pichichione who scores
  • goleadorone who scores
Swahili mfungaji
  • mfungajione who scores
Swedish målgörare
  • målgörareone who scores

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Cite this entry
APA

scorer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scorer

MLA

“scorer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scorer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scorer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scorer.

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