gridiron football in English

[Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: From gridiron + football from the former demarcations on the football field, which was like a gridiron, and being a sport derived from rugby football. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|gridiron|football}} gridiron + football Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} gridiron football (uncountable)

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gridiron",
        "3": "football"
      },
      "expansion": "gridiron + football",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From gridiron + football from the former demarcations on the football field, which was like a gridiron, and being a sport derived from rugby football.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "gridiron football (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "gridiron football player"
        },
        {
          "word": "gridiron football ball"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "American football and Canadian football, collectively."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "football"
        }
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "Canadian football"
        },
        {
          "word": "American football"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-gridiron_football-en-noun-eoXYMzrW",
      "links": [
        [
          "American football",
          "American football"
        ],
        [
          "Canadian football",
          "Canadian football"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "rugby football"
        },
        {
          "word": "soccer football"
        },
        {
          "word": "association football"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "North American football"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Canadian-English",
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "football"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gridiron football"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "gridiron football player"
    },
    {
      "word": "gridiron football ball"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gridiron",
        "3": "football"
      },
      "expansion": "gridiron + football",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From gridiron + football from the former demarcations on the football field, which was like a gridiron, and being a sport derived from rugby football.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "gridiron football (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "football"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "word": "Canadian football"
    },
    {
      "word": "American football"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "rugby football"
    },
    {
      "word": "soccer football"
    },
    {
      "word": "association football"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "American football and Canadian football, collectively."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "American football",
          "American football"
        ],
        [
          "Canadian football",
          "Canadian football"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "North American football"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Canadian-English",
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "football"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gridiron football"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.

"gridiron football" meaning in English

Noun