Added 9 October 2026
field
/ˈfi(ː)ld/ noun
In Latin: campus, rūs Wiktionary
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about field at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
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A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed.
he planted a field of wheat
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A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought.
they made a tour of Civil War battlefields
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Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected.
anthropologists do much of their work in the field
verb
Origin
From Middle English feld, feeld (“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).
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