field

The word “field” means an open area of land, especially one used for growing crops, grazing animals, or playing sports. In plain terms, an open piece of land, or, more abstractly, an area of work or study; as a verb, to catch a ball or handle something thrown at you (literally or figuratively).

“Field” is pronounced FEELD (/ˈfi(ː)ld/ in IPA).

Here is “field” used in a sentence: “The farmer walked out into the field to check on the wheat.”

The opposite of “field” — its antonyms — is bat.

Depending on how it is used, “field” can be a noun and a verb.

The word “field” comes from Old English. From Old English feld, related to the idea of a flat, open space — the same ancient root that gives us "flat.".

“Field” is a very common word in modern English, usually learned at around the A1 level.

“Field” has 5 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: an open area of land, especially one used for growing crops, grazing animals, or playing sports.

A field is any open stretch of land, often ploughed, fenced, or set aside for crops, animals, or sport. A meadow is specifically grassland, usually left to grow wild flowers and grasses and often cut for hay. A meadow is one type of field, but not every field is a meadow.

Both are open land, but 'pasture' always refers to ground used for grazing livestock. A field is more general: it may hold crops, host a football match, or simply lie empty. When animals are feeding on it, a field is functioning as a pasture.

In the land sense, fields are usually named by their use: arable fields for growing crops, grazing or hay fields for livestock, and playing fields for sport. The word also stretches beyond land to mean an area of study or activity, or a region of force in physics.

A farmer's wheat field, a green field full of grazing sheep, or the field where a local football team plays are all everyday examples. Each is an open, usually flat area of land, put to a particular practical use such as farming or sport.