"box score" meaning in English

See box score in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: box scores [plural], boxscore [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} box score (plural box scores)
  1. (sports, Canada, US) A score showing the final scores of the teams in a game, as well as certain individual and team achievements. Tags: Canada, US Related terms: line score, scorecard

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "box scores",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boxscore",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "box score (plural box scores)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
          "orig": "en:Sports",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A score showing the final scores of the teams in a game, as well as certain individual and team achievements."
      ],
      "id": "en-box_score-en-noun-tl82voq6",
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "score",
          "score"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports, Canada, US) A score showing the final scores of the teams in a game, as well as certain individual and team achievements."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "line score"
        },
        {
          "word": "scorecard"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "box score"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "box scores",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boxscore",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "box score (plural box scores)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "line score"
    },
    {
      "word": "scorecard"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A score showing the final scores of the teams in a game, as well as certain individual and team achievements."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "score",
          "score"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports, Canada, US) A score showing the final scores of the teams in a game, as well as certain individual and team achievements."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "box score"
}

Download raw JSONL data for box score meaning in English (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.