Meanings
scorer1
plural scorers
- 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..
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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 - One who keeps track of scores in a game; a scorekeeper.
The team was making goals so fast the scorer could barely keep up.
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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
Scorer2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan official who records the score during the progress of a game
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
scorer · noun
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-
- Proto-Germanic*skurō
- Old Norseskor
- Old Englishscoru
- Middle Englishscore
- Englishscore
- Englishscorer
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
scorer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scorer
“scorer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scorer. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scorer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scorer.
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