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TOUCHDOWN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("touchdown" is a kind of...):
score (the act of scoring in a game or sport)
Domain category:
American football; American football game (a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("touchdown" is a kind of...):
landing (the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface))
Derivation:
touch down (come or bring (a plane) to a landing)
