Field definition

Field as a noun

1. a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

   "he planted a field of wheat"

2. a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

   Same sense: field of battle, field of honor, battlefield, battleground

3. 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"

4. a branch of knowledge

   Same sense: study, subject, field of study, subject area, subject field, discipline, bailiwick

5. the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

   Same sense: field of force, force field

6. a particular kind of commercial enterprise

   "they are outstanding in their field"

   Same sense: line of business, field of operation

7. a particular environment or walk of life

   Same sense: area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere

8. a piece of land prepared for playing a game

   "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"

   Same sense: playing area, playing field, athletic field

9. extensive tract of level open land

   "he longed for the fields of his youth"

   Same sense: plain, champaign

10. (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

    "the set of all rational numbers is a field"

11. a region in which active military operations are in progress

    "the army was in the field awaiting action"

    Same sense: field of operations, theatre, theatre of operations, theater, theater of operations

12. all of the horses in a particular horse race

13. all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

14. a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found

    "the diamond fields of South Africa"

15. (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

16. the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

    Same sense: field of view

17. a place where planes take off and land

    Same sense: flying field, landing field, airfield

Field as a verb

18. catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

19. play as a fielder

20. answer adequately or successfully

    "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"

21. select (a team or individual player) for a game

    "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"

Synonyms and antonyms

• field of battle
• field of honor
• battlefield
• battleground
• study definition
• subject
• field of study
• subject area
• subject field
• discipline
• bailiwick
• field of force
• force field
• line of business
• field of operation
• area definition
• arena
• domain
• orbit
• sphere
• playing area
• playing field
• athletic field
• plain

All synonyms of field, sense by sense

How to say field

Field has 1 syllable and rhymes with revealed. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with field

• revealed
• shield
• yield
• sealed
• battlefield
• appealed
• concealed
• healed
• windshield
• wheeled
• repealed
• peeled

All 31 words that rhyme with field

FIELD in word games

Scrabble

9

Words With Friends

10

Anagrams

3

Is FIELD a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check FIELD in the word checker, or unscramble FIELD to see its 3 anagrams and the shorter words in its letters.