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golf

/ˈɡɒlf/GOLF
/ˈɡɑlf/GAHLF

Meaninga club

Common meaning: a game played with clubs and a small ball

Journey through time

  1. Dutchkolf‘a club for striking balls’source
  2. Early Scots recordgolfsource
  3. Englishmeaning shiftsa club for striking balls → a game played with clubs and a small ballgolf‘a game played with clubs and a small ball’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Dutch kolf ‘a club’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry GOLF, p. 239 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • kolf Dutch “a club”

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