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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024golf /gɑlf, gɔlf/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Sporta game in which special sticks called clubs are used to hit a small, hard, usually white ball into a series of holes, usually 9 or 18, situated at various distances over a course.
v. [no object] - to play golf:golfed on Sunday mornings.
golf•er, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024golf (golf, gôlf; Brit. also gof ),USA pronunciation n. - Sporta game in which clubs with wooden or metal heads are used to hit a small, white ball into a number of holes, usually 9 or 18, in succession, situated at various distances over a course having natural or artificial obstacles, the object being to get the ball into each hole in as few strokes as possible.
- a word used in communications to represent the letter G.
v.i. - to play golf.
- 1425–75; late Middle English; of uncertain origin, originally
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: golf /ɡɒlf/ n - a game played on a large open course, the object of which is to hit a ball using clubs, with as few strokes as possible, into each of usually 18 holes
vb - (intransitive) to play golf
Etymology: 15th Century: perhaps from Middle Dutch colf club |