Meaning of "touchdown" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF TOUCHDOWN

touchdown  [ˈtʌtʃˌdaʊn]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOUCHDOWN

Touchdown is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb touchdown in English.

WHAT DOES TOUCHDOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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.

Definition of touchdown in the English dictionary

The first definition of touchdown in the dictionary is the moment at which a landing aircraft or spacecraft comes into contact with the landing surface. Other definition of touchdown is the act of placing or touching the ball on the ground behind the goal line, as in scoring a try. Touchdown is also to land.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO TOUCHDOWN

PRESENT

Present

I touchdown

you touchdown

he/she/it touchdowns

we touchdown

you touchdown

they touchdown

Present continuous

I am touchdowning

you are touchdowning

he/she/it is touchdowning

we are touchdowning

you are touchdowning

they are touchdowning

Present perfect

I have touchdowned

you have touchdowned

he/she/it has touchdowned

we have touchdowned

you have touchdowned

they have touchdowned

Present perfect continuous

I have been touchdowning

you have been touchdowning

he/she/it has been touchdowning

we have been touchdowning

you have been touchdowning

they have been touchdowning

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I touchdowned

you touchdowned

he/she/it touchdowned

we touchdowned

you touchdowned

they touchdowned

Past continuous

I was touchdowning

you were touchdowning

he/she/it was touchdowning

we were touchdowning

you were touchdowning

they were touchdowning

Past perfect

I had touchdowned

you had touchdowned

he/she/it had touchdowned

we had touchdowned

you had touchdowned

they had touchdowned

Past perfect continuous

I had been touchdowning

you had been touchdowning

he/she/it had been touchdowning

we had been touchdowning

you had been touchdowning

they had been touchdowning

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will touchdown

you will touchdown

he/she/it will touchdown

we will touchdown

you will touchdown

they will touchdown

Future continuous

I will be touchdowning

you will be touchdowning

he/she/it will be touchdowning

we will be touchdowning

you will be touchdowning

they will be touchdowning

Future perfect

I will have touchdowned

you will have touchdowned

he/she/it will have touchdowned

we will have touchdowned

you will have touchdowned

they will have touchdowned

Future perfect continuous

I will have been touchdowning

you will have been touchdowning

he/she/it will have been touchdowning

we will have been touchdowning

you will have been touchdowning

they will have been touchdowning

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would touchdown

you would touchdown

he/she/it would touchdown

we would touchdown

you would touchdown

they would touchdown

Conditional continuous

I would be touchdowning

you would be touchdowning

he/she/it would be touchdowning

we would be touchdowning

you would be touchdowning

they would be touchdowning

Conditional perfect

I would have touchdown

you would have touchdown

he/she/it would have touchdown

we would have touchdown

you would have touchdown

they would have touchdown

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been touchdowning

you would have been touchdowning

he/she/it would have been touchdowning

we would have been touchdowning

you would have been touchdowning

they would have been touchdowning

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you touchdown
we let´s touchdown
you touchdown

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to touchdown

Past participle

touchdowned

Present Participle

touchdowning

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

TRANSLATION OF TOUCHDOWN

Find out the translation of touchdown to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of touchdown from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «touchdown» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 着地
• Translator English - Spanish: aterrizaje
• English: touchdown
• Translator English - Hindi: touchdown
• Translator English - Arabic: هُبُوط
• Translator English - Russian: приземление
• Translator English - Portuguese: aterrissagem
• Translator English - Bengali: touchdown
• Translator English - French: atterrissage
• Translator English - Malay: Touchdown
• Translator English - German: Landung
• Translator English - Japanese: 着地
• Translator English - Korean: 착륙
• Translator English - Javanese: Touchdown
• Translator English - Vietnamese: sự hạ cánh
• Translator English - Tamil: தொட்ட
• Translator English - Marathi: टचडाउन
• Translator English - Turkish: gol
• Translator English - Italian: meta
• Translator English - Polish: przyziemienie
• Translator English - Ukrainian: приземлення
• Translator English - Romanian: aterizare
• Translator English - Greek: παραβίαση τέρματος
• Translator English - Afrikaans: landing
• Translator English - Swedish: landning
• Translator English - Norwegian: landingsøyeblikk

9 QUOTES WITH «TOUCHDOWN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word touchdown.

1

Alec Baldwin

Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.

2

John O. Brennan

A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.

3

Earl Campbell

Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

4

Jackson Katz

Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.

5

Steve Mariucci

Whether you're a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you're a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, you've got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.

6

Joe Montana

As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.

7

Joe Montana

There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass.

8

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.

9

Hunter S. Thompson

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOUCHDOWN»

Discover the use of touchdown in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to touchdown and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in ...

This book is an intriguing narrative of the interplay between American religion and patterns of American culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Robert Laurence Moore, 2003

Touchdown Trouble

Sam loves football.

Fred Bowen, 2013

Touchdown Alexander: My Story of Faith, Football, and ...

The NFLs Most Valuable Player for 2005 shares the amazing journey God has prepared for him. He recounts the years that led up to his success on and off the field, and how God gave him the dream of his achievements.

Shaun Alexander, Cecil Murphey, 2007

Touchdown! My Football Book

Simple text and images introduce the game of football.

David Diehl, 2008

Touchdown!: Achieving Your Greatness on the Playing Field of ...

In this book, Dr. Kevin Elko shows how to build your success one brick at a time...so when it happens, it happens huge. As America’s #1 performance consultant, Elko knows more about preparing for success than anyone.

Kevin Elko, 2009

Mr. Touchdown

The roar came closer.

Lyda Phillips, 2008

Touchdown for Tommy

TOUCHDOWN FOR TOMMY Is football Tommy's key to a new home?

Matt Christopher, 2009

Touchdown

When one of their friends suddenly dies in the middle of a college football game, Ben, blind since birth, and Butch, deaf for most of his life, combine their sleuthing talents to prove it was not an accident.

Richard A. Steel, 2000

Touchdown Nouns

Grammar comes to life in this fun series, in which entertaining sports events reinforce language arts skills.

Doris Fisher, D. L. Gibbs, 2008

Touchdown: The Power and Precision of Football's Perfect Play

Touchdown: The Power and Precision of Football s Perfect Play takes readers beyond the record books and explores all aspects of bringing the ball into the end zone.

Mark Stewart, Mike Kennedy, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOUCHDOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term touchdown is used in the context of the following news items.

Tightend Touchdown Ends Skid in Parx Dash

After finishing second to Ben's Cat in the previous two editions of the five-furlong turf race at Parx Racing, Tightend Touchdown would not be denied Saturday, ... «BloodHorse.com, Jul 15»

Collie nabs first career CFL touchdown for BC Lions

CANADA — Former BYU wide receiver Austin Collie celebrated the Fourth of July the way any good American football player should: by scoring a touchdown in ... «KSL.com, Jul 15»

Henry Burris throws three touchdowns to lead Redblacks past Lions

Burris was a big part of the victory — throwing three touchdowns and finishing the game completing 23-of-29 pass attempts for 290 yards and one interception. «Yahoo Canada Sports, Jul 15»

Sumlin has fun with crowd at Houston Touchdown Club

“No,” Sumlin said with a grin, as a few in the crowd chuckled, then more joined in during the luncheon at the Houston Touchdown Club on Wednesday. «The Eagle, Jun 15»

Touchdown for Dreams sweet music for Saskatoon woman with cancer

This year, Cole has been selected as a Cameco Touchdown for Dreams recipient. The program will grant 10 wishes to women in Saskatchewan with a ... «CBC.ca, Jun 15»

Watch Part 4 Of Boosie Badazz' 'Touchdown 2 Cause Hell …

With his long-anticipated album Touchdown 2 Cause Hell dropping in just a few days (May 26), Boosie Badazz is back with the fourth installment of his ... «Vibe, May 15»

Cancer-Free Leah Still Scores Temple's First Touchdown Of 2015 …

On a beautiful day in North Philadelphia, Leah Still brought even more sunshine to Temple's spring football game. Leah, daughter of Cincinnati Bengals ... «NESN.com, Apr 15»

Hostess tweets 'Touchdown' to celebrate baseball's opening day

Major League Baseball's 2015 season is barely a day old, and Hostess has already struck out. In an attempt to stuff itself in on the trending #OpeningDay ... «Today.com, Apr 15»

Bills, M&T Bank honor outstanding educators with Touchdown for …

ORCHARD PARK, NY—The Buffalo Bills and M&T Bank are proud to announce the seventh annual Touchdown for Teachers program, which honors local ... «BuffaloBills.com, Mar 15»

Touchdown Club of New Orleans to honor Terry Bradshaw and …

Pro football Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw will headline a decorated lineup that will be honored by The Touchdown Club of New Orleans during a banquet ... «NOLA.com, Feb 15»