Definition of field

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  • field is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 9
  • field is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 9
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Definition of field

  • a branch of knowledge (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. bailiwick
    2. discipline
    3. field of study
    4. study
    5. subject
    6. subject area
    7. subject field
  • a particular kind of commercial enterprise (noun)

    Examples

    1. they are outstanding in their field

    Synonyms

    1. field of operation
    2. line of business
  • the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. field of view
  • a particular environment or walk of life (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. area
    2. arena
    3. domain
    4. orbit
    5. sphere
  • the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. field of force
    2. force field
  • a piece of land prepared for playing a game (noun)

    Examples

    1. the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field

    Synonyms

    1. athletic field
    2. playing area
    3. playing field
  • a place where planes take off and land (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. airfield
    2. flying field
    3. landing field
  • extensive tract of level open land (noun)

    Examples

    1. he longed for the fields of his youth

    Synonyms

    1. champaign
    2. plain
  • a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought (noun)

    Examples

    1. they made a tour of Civil War battlefields

    Synonyms

    1. battlefield
    2. battleground
    3. field of battle
    4. field of honor
  • a region in which active military operations are in progress (noun)

    Examples

    1. the army was in the field awaiting action

    Synonyms

    1. field of operations
    2. theater
    3. theater of operations
    4. theatre
    5. theatre of operations
  • a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found (noun)

    Examples

    1. the diamond fields of South Africa
  • all of the horses in a particular horse race (noun)
  • all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event (noun)
  • answer adequately or successfully (verb)

    Examples

    1. The lawyer fielded all questions from the press
  • a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed (noun)

    Examples

    1. he planted a field of wheat
  • catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket (verb)
  • (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information (noun)
  • (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1 (noun)

    Examples

    1. the set of all rational numbers is a field
  • play as a fielder (verb)
  • select (a team or individual player) for a game (verb)

    Examples

    1. The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl
  • somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected (noun)

    Examples

    1. anthropologists do much of their work in the field

See definition of field in Merriam Webster