field

field is a 5-letter English word with 34 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 34 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
2. noun. A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
3. noun. A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
4. noun. An open space; an extent; an expanse.
5. noun. Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
6. noun. The space covered by an optical instrument at one view.
7. noun. The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).
8. noun. An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.
9. noun. A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
10. noun. That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
11. intransitive verb. To take the field.
12. intransitive verb. To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
13. transitive verb. To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
14. noun. a particular kind of commercial enterprise

    "they are outstanding in their field"

15. noun. a place where planes take off and land

    Synonyms: airfield

16. noun. the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
17. noun. a branch of knowledge

    "in what discipline is his doctorate?"

    "teachers should be well trained in their subject"

    Synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, study, subject

18. noun. all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
19. noun. all of the horses in a particular horse race
20. 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

    "the set of all rational numbers is a field"

21. noun. (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
22. noun. a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

    "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"

    Synonyms: battlefield, battleground

23. noun. a region in which active military operations are in progress

    "the army was in the field awaiting action"

    "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"

    Synonyms: theater, theatre

24. noun. 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"

25. noun. a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

    "he planted a field of wheat"

26. noun. a piece of land prepared for playing a game

    "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"

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

    "the diamond fields of South Africa"

28. noun. extensive tract of level open land

    "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"

    "he longed for the fields of his youth"

    Synonyms: champaign, plain

29. noun. the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
30. noun. a particular environment or walk of life

    "his social sphere is limited"

    "it was a closed area of employment"

    Synonyms: area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere

31. verb. select (a team or individual player) for a game

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

32. verb. answer adequately or successfully

    "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"

33. verb. play as a fielder
34. verb. catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

Synonyms

airfield, bailiwick, discipline, study, subject, battlefield, battleground, theater, theatre, champaign, plain, area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in field:

felid, fidel, filed, flied

Common word forms

fields, fielded, fielden, fielder, fielding

Words from these letters

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