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goal

n.

object, aim, intent, intention; see end 2, purpose 1. See syn. study at intention.

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Another word for goal

noun

What one intends to do or achieve:

aim, ambition, design, end, intent, intention, mark, meaning, object, objective, point, purpose, target, view, why. Idioms: end in view, why and wherefore. See planned, purpose

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I'm too close to my goal to give up now.
And yet, it had been her goal for over three years.
I was sure his goal was to eliminate the person or persons tracking him; the tipster.
Brahmanic pantheism and Buddhistic nihilism alike teach the unreality of the seeming world, and preach mystical absorption as the highest goal; in both, the sense of the worth of human personality is lost.
The next goal was completing her training in pediatrics.

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