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Definitions for touchdown
ˈtʌtʃˌdaʊntouch·down

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. touchdownnoun

    a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line

  2. touchdownnoun

    a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes

Wiktionary

  1. touchdownnoun

    A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone. Analogous to a try in rugby.

    Today I scored my first touchdown.

  2. touchdownnoun

    The moment when an aircraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.

    The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.

  3. touchdownnoun

    A try

Wikipedia

  1. Touchdown

    A touchdown (abbreviated as TD) is a scoring play in gridiron football. Whether running, passing, returning a kickoff or punt, or recovering a turnover, a team scores a touchdown by advancing the ball into the opponent's end zone. In American football, a touchdown is worth six points and is followed by an extra point or two-point conversion attempt.

ChatGPT

  1. touchdown

    A touchdown is a scoring play in American and Canadian football, where a player successfully carries the ball or catches it in the end zone of the opposing team, resulting in six points for the player's team. The term can also refer to the act of touching down, especially the landing of an aircraft or spacecraft.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Touchdownnoun

    the act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal

Wikidata

  1. Touchdown

    A touchdown is a means of scoring in American and Canadian football. Whether running, passing, returning a kickoff or punt, or recovering a turnover, a team scores a touchdown by advancing the ball into the opponent's end zone.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of touchdown in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of touchdown in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of touchdown in a Sentence

  1. Tyrod Taylor:

    We were able to make some plays, move the ball down the field, obviously, you want to finish with a touchdown, but anytime you get points, you can never be mad about that.

  2. Barack Obama:

    You're always going to fall short, because if you're hitting your marks, that means you didn't set them high enough, we don't score a touchdown every time, but we move the ball forward.

  3. Bruce Banerdt:

    The first image will be taken less than an hour after touchdown and should be available on Earth within the first day, we should have images of the landing area within a week.

  4. H. Ross Perot:

    Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

  5. Joe Biden:

    I just wanted to say we're in a red zone here, i know the Super Bowl is today. We're at the 10-yard line -- and you know, a touchdown is the only way to win this thing right now.

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