field
Meanings
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
- The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
- A region containing a particular mineral.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
- The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
- The outfield.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
- A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
- To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
- To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- To answer; to address.
- To execute research (in the field).
- To deploy in the field.
- A surname.
- A community near Field Hill within Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada, named after Cyrus West Field.
- A community in West Nipissing, Northeastern Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.
- A neighbourhood of Nokomis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- A locality in Coorong council area, south-east South Australia.
- A hamlet in Eardisley parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3050).
- A neighbourhood in Shepton Mallet parish, Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST6142).
- A hamlet in Leigh parish, East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0233).
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Etymology
From Middle English feeld, feld (“field”), from Old English feld (“field”), from Proto-West Germanic *felþu (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut). Cognates Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fial, fälj (“field”), Saterland Frisian Fäild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German and Luxembourgish Feld (“field”), Vilamovian fald (“field”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk felt (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”), Finnish pelto (“field”), Asturian and Leonese platu (“plate”), Aragonese and Spanish plato (“plate”), Catalan plat (“plate”), French plat (“dish”), Galician, Mirandese, and Portuguese prato (“plate”), Italian piatto (“plate”), Latin *plattus (“flattened”), Greek πλατύς (platýs, “wide, broad”). Doublet of plate. Related also to Middle English flat (“flat”), Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at flat, fold. Not related to English felt.