lacrosse

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
I read The Sun everyday - mostly for obituraries and sports (especially lacrosse which isn't very popular here on the northern California coast).

View all »
Definitions (4)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun A game played on a rectangular field by two teams of ten players each, in which participants use a long-handled stick that has a webbed pouch on one end to maneuver a ball into the opposing team's goal.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (1)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • "At a school like Dartmouth, the academics sell itself and the lacrosse is just another bonus."
  • And if you're into lacrosse, the Bandits kick the season off at HSBC Saturday night, too. —  WNYMedia
  • The Native Americans who invented lacrosse were not those present at that first Thanksgiving; the lacrosse-playing natives were the Iroquois Nation - a confederacy of Six Nations really, that were in many ways emulated by our founding fathers in the formation of our federalist government. —  Blog updates
  • And while there are some within the Six Nations that still resent the actions of the ancestors of white Americans (and Canadians), in lacrosse, the Iroquois are revered in the lacrosse community as the inventor and custodian of the game and compete in our world games as a nation proudly. —  Blog updates
  • "But lacrosse is at a precipice right now; we have an opportunity right now, if you can step back from your own little world."
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 90 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Canadian French la crosse, from French (jeu de) la crosse, (game of) the hooked stick, from Old French croce, crosse, crosier, of Germanic origin.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Canadian F. la crosse: la, the; crosse, a crook, crutch, hockey-stick, crosier, etc.: see cross.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ləˈkrɔs/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a month.

Recently looked up

munificently · viscous · suction · lowball · pigs

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

unicycle hockey · droopy drawers · turducken · cuddlefish · cuttlefish