Field Definition
- suitable candidates
- players
- contenders
- possibilities
- nominees
- applicants
- contestants
- participants
- entrants
- entries
- parking-lot
- range
- parade-ground
- arena
- theater-of-war
A surname.
- To begin or resume activity, as in a sport or military operations.
- to continue activity, as in games or military operations
- to take a broad area of operations; not confine one's activities to one object
- to date several people casually over a period of time
- to begin (or withdraw from) activity in a game, military operation, etc.
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Field
- take the field
- keep the field
- play the field
- take (or leave) the field
Origin of Field
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From Middle English field, feeld, feld, from Old English feld (“field; open or cultivated land, plain; battlefield”), from Proto-Germanic *felþuz, *felþaz, *felþą (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“field, plain”). Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English feld from Old English pelə-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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