Field
nounAn area of open or cultivated land, especially one used for crops, pasture, or sport.
How to spell field
5 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce field
What does field mean?
- nounAn area of open or cultivated land, especially one used for crops, pasture, or sport.
Field in a sentence
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The horses graze in the field.
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A flock of sheep grazed in the field.
Where does field come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
The word descends from Old English feld, which referred to open country, plain, or cleared land used for pasture or crops, as opposed to woodland. It traces back to a Proto-Germanic root meaning a flat, broad expanse, and it shares that ancestry with the Dutch veld and the German Feld, both still meaning 'field'. The same broad sense of flat ground also surfaces in 'veldt', the open grassland of southern Africa borrowed from Afrikaans. Over the centuries the literal farmland meaning broadened into figurative uses: a 'field' of study, a magnetic 'field', and a sports 'field'. The spelling preserves the classic 'ie' vowel team, which is the usual trap for writers who briefly hesitate over whether it should be 'ei'.
How the word is built
- field (a single native root; no prefix or suffix)
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