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Goal   /goʊl/   Listen
Goal

noun
1.
The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.  Synonym: end.
2.
The place designated as the end (as of a race or journey).  Synonyms: destination, finish.  "He was nearly exhausted as their destination came into view"
3.
Game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points.
4.
A successful attempt at scoring.



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"Goal" Quotes from Famous Books



... man as I did was exactly a 'stranger' to him. And then, twice as suddenly, to great, grown-up, cool-blooded, money-staled, book-tamed me—it swept over me like a cyclone that I should never be able to decide anything more in all my life—not the width of a tinsel ribbon, not the goal of a journey, not the worth of a lover—until I'd seen the Face that belonged to the Voice in ...
— The Indiscreet Letter • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... some reason or other the stairs thenceforward remained more perfect. Only they seemed almost endless, and before we reached our goal I calculated that we must have descended quite twelve hundred feet into the bowels of the rock. At length, when I was almost tired out and Maqueda was so breathless that she was obliged to lean on ...
— Queen Sheba's Ring • H. Rider Haggard
... implore you, Socrates, said Glaucon, not to turn away just as you are reaching the goal; if you will only give such an explanation of the good as you have already given of justice and temperance and the other virtues, we shall ...
— The Republic • Plato
... Narration. So that they set the audience, as it were, at the post where the race is to be concluded: and, saving them the tedious expectation of seeing the Poet set out and ride the beginning of the course; you behold him not, till he is in sight of the goal, ...
— An English Garner - Critical Essays & Literary Fragments • Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe
... your opinions, Philippe. There are even some that terrify me ... especially those which I do not know, but which I half suspect. But, whatever the goal to which you are leading us, I will walk to it with ...
— The Frontier • Maurice LeBlanc


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