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# scorer

«scorer» in Mova's school dictionary: **A player who scores a goal or points** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a scorer, scorers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A player who scores a goal or points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorer/#m1)

2) A person who keeps the score in a game, especially in cricket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorer/#m2)

3) top scorer The player or pupil with the most points or goals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorer/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In sport at school and clubs: «the top scorer in netball», «goal scorer». In cricket, the scorer records every run. In quizzes and tests, «the highest scorer». Phrases: «top scorer», «leading goal scorer», «the official scorer».

### examples

- She was the top scorer in the hockey match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorer/#x1)
- Our scorer kept track of every run. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorer/#x2)
- The team's leading goal scorer got a trophy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorer/#x3)
- Who was the highest scorer in the spelling test? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorer/#x4)
- The scorer wrote the points on the board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorer/#x5)
- He is a natural scorer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorer/#x6)

### note

Countable. From «score» + «-er». In maths, a scorer with 3 goals in each of 4 games scored 3 × 4 = 12 goals.

### In the corpora

- [Jake and Connor both want to be top scorer; in practice Jake starts going in late on Connor's ankles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scorer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.