noun (n)

• the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it(noun.cognition)

  Synonym:
  end
  

  source: wordnet30
• the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)(noun.location)

  Synonym:
  destination, finish
  

  source: wordnet30
• game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points(noun.artifact)

  source: wordnet30
• a successful attempt at scoring(noun.act)

  Example:
  The winning goal came with less than a minute left to play.
  

  source: wordnet30
• The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.(noun)

  source: webster1913