field

Meaning

1. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
2. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
3. A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
4. A region containing a particular mineral.
5. An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
6. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
7. (obsolete) A place where competitive matches are carried out.
8. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
9. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
10. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
11. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
12. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
13. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
14. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
15. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
16. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
17. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
18. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
19. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
20. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
21. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
22. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
23. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
24. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
25. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
26. Archaic form of fielder.

area

plain

open country

rice-field

arable land

open space

cultivated field

subject area

agricultural land

plot of land

flying field

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fiːld/

From Middle English feeld, feld, from Old English feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut). Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.