Word

field, n.
(fields)
freq. cnt. 168

a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
<noun.location> freq. cnt.: 49 freq. cnt.: 49

field

sample sentences

"he planted a field of wheat"

semantic pointers

hyponym

yard, grounds, curtilage campus firebreak, fireguard grainfield, grain field lawn rice paddy, paddy, paddy field

hypernym

tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel

a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
<noun.location> freq. cnt.: 31 freq. cnt.: 22 freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

battlefield battleground field field of battle field of honor

sample sentences

"they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"

semantic pointers

hypernym

tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel

instance hyponym

Armageddon Camlan

part meronym

front, battlefront, front line sector

somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
<noun.location> freq. cnt.: 20 freq. cnt.: 20

field

sample sentences

"anthropologists do much of their work in the field"

semantic pointers

hypernym

region

a branch of knowledge
<noun.cognition> freq. cnt.: 34 freq. cnt.: 18 freq. cnt.: 11 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2

bailiwick discipline field field of study study subject subject area subject field

sample sentences

"in what discipline is his doctorate?"
"teachers should be well trained in their subject"
"anthropology is the study of human beings"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

study study

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

disciplinary

semantic pointers

hyponym

hypernym

knowledge domain, knowledge base, domain

the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
<noun.phenomenon> freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 14

field field of force force field

semantic pointers

hypernym

physical phenomenon

hyponym

electric field gravitational field magnetic field, magnetic flux, flux radiation field

a particular kind of commercial enterprise
<noun.act> freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 9 freq. cnt.: 1

field field of operation line of business

sample sentences

"they are outstanding in their field"

semantic pointers

hypernym

business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise

a piece of land prepared for playing a game
<noun.location> freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 8

athletic field field playing area playing field

sample sentences

"the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

field field

semantic pointers

hyponym

arena, scene of action ball field, baseball field, diamond court football field, gridiron palestra, palaestra bowling green pitch, soccer field

part holonym

stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium

hypernym

tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel

part meronym

midfield

a particular environment or walk of life
<noun.state> freq. cnt.: 28 freq. cnt.: 9 freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

area arena domain field orbit sphere

sample sentences

"his social sphere is limited"
"it was a closed area of employment"
"he's out of my orbit"

semantic pointers

hypernym

environment

hyponym

distaff front realm, kingdom, land lap political arena, political sphere preserve responsibility, province

(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.group> freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 7

field

sample sentences

"the set of all rational numbers is a field"

semantic pointers

domain of synset (topic)

mathematics, math, maths

hypernym

set

hyponym

scalar field

extensive tract of level open land
<noun.object> freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 1

champaign field plain

sample sentences

"they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"
"he longed for the fields of his youth"

semantic pointers

instance hyponym

Olympia Nullarbor Plain Serengeti, Serengeti Plain

hyponym

flat floodplain, flood plain llano moor, moorland peneplain, peneplane snowfield steppe tundra

hypernym

ground, earth, land, terra firma, dry land, solid ground

a region in which active military operations are in progress
<noun.location> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 4

field field of operations theater theater of operations theatre theatre of operations