scorer

See also: Scorer

English

Etymology

score +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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Noun

scorer (plural scorers)

1. 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..

   • 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     But chances were rare for the lowest scorers in the Premier League against a Newcastle defence which claimed a fourth straight clean sheet.

2. One who keeps track of scores in a game; a scorekeeper.

   The team was making goals so fast the scorer could barely keep up.

3. (cricket) Either of a pair of people, one provided by each side, who record in a specially formatted book, every ball bowled, every run scored, and every wicket that falls

Derived terms

• official scorer
• top scorer
• trouble the scorers
• try-scorer

 

Related terms

• scoreboard
• scorebox

Translations

one who scores

• Catalan: golejador (ca) m
• Finnish: maalintekijä (fi)
• French: buteur (fr) m, buteuse (fr), scoreur (fr) m
• German: Torschütze m (goal scorer)
• Swahili: mfungaji
• Swedish: målgörare (sv) c (literally “goal maker”)

scorekeeper — see scorekeeper

Anagrams

• corers, crores

Danish

Noun

scorer

1. indefinite plural of score

Verb

scorer

1. present of score

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɔ.ʁe/

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Verb

scorer

1. (sports) to score (a goal)

Conjugation

Conjugation of scorer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	scorer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	scorant /skɔ.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		scoré /skɔ.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	score /skɔʁ/	scores /skɔʁ/	score /skɔʁ/	scorons /skɔ.ʁɔ̃/	scorez /skɔ.ʁe/	scorent /skɔʁ/
	imperfect	scorais /skɔ.ʁɛ/	scorais /skɔ.ʁɛ/	scorait /skɔ.ʁɛ/	scorions /skɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	scoriez /skɔ.ʁje/	scoraient /skɔ.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	scorai /skɔ.ʁe/	scoras /skɔ.ʁa/	scora /skɔ.ʁa/	scorâmes /skɔ.ʁam/	scorâtes /skɔ.ʁat/	scorèrent /skɔ.ʁɛʁ/
	future	scorerai /skɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	scoreras /skɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	scorera /skɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	scorerons /skɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	scorerez /skɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	scoreront /skɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	scorerais /skɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	scorerais /skɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	scorerait /skɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	scorerions /skɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	scoreriez /skɔ.ʁə.ʁje/	scoreraient /skɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	score /skɔʁ/	scores /skɔʁ/	score /skɔʁ/	scorions /skɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	scoriez /skɔ.ʁje/	scorent /skɔʁ/
	imperfect2	scorasse /skɔ.ʁas/	scorasses /skɔ.ʁas/	scorât /skɔ.ʁa/	scorassions /skɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	scorassiez /skɔ.ʁa.sje/	scorassent /skɔ.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	score /skɔʁ/	—	scorons /skɔ.ʁɔ̃/	scorez /skɔ.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

scorer m

1. indefinite plural of score

Verb

scorer

1. present of score

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English scorer.

Noun

scorer m (plural scoreri)

1. scorer, scorekeeper

Declension

Declension of scorer

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) scorer	scorerul	(niște) scoreri	scorerii
genitive/dative	(unui) scorer	scorerului	(unor) scoreri	scorerilor
vocative	scorerule		scorerilor