Noun: golf
Sample Sentences
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In January, China’s state planner said it had ordered the closure of more than 100 golf courses in a multi-year campaign launched in 2011 to tackle illegal development in the sector.
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Golf has also been added to a list of Communist Party disciplinary violations, and is often cited in cases of graft. [2017 October 16, Adam Jourdan, Matt Miller, “In the rough - China closes Wanda golf courses in chilly northeast”, in Himani Sarkar, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2023, Business News:]
Nouns inflected like golf
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
The word is first known in English from the 17th century as a borrowing from Middle Scots golf, gouff. Although the etymology is uncertain, the most likely origin is that it comes from the Middle Dutch colve, colf (“club”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“club”), related to German Kolben (“piston, rod”), Swedish kolv (“piston, rod”), Old English clopp (“rock; cliff”), English kelp. See: German Nouns '
Kolben', Swedish Nouns '
kolv', Old English Nouns '
clopp', English Nouns '
kelp'.
Verbs referencing "golf"
Faroese Nouns
golf, Finnish Nouns
golf, Hungarian Nouns
golf, Icelandic Nouns
golf, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
golf, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
golf, Swedish Nouns
golf, German Nouns
Kolben, Russian Nouns
гольф, Zulu Nouns
igalofu.