field

English

/fiːld/, /fild/

noun
Definitions
  • A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
  • A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
  • A place where competitive matches are carried out.
  • Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English field inherited from Old English feld (battlefield, open cultivated land, plain, field) inherited from *felþu inherited from Proto-Germanic *felþuz derived from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (flat, broad, plain, wide, wide and flat, thin, field).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*pleh₂-

Gloss

flat, broad, plain, wide, wide and flat, thin, field

Concept
Semantic Field

Spatial relations

Ontological Category

Property

Kanji

野, 畑, 原

Emoji

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