FIELD
What does "FIELD" mean?
An open area of land, often used for crops, grazing, or play.
Meanings
- An expanse of open, often cultivated, land. The tractor crossed the field at dawn, turning the soil.
- A marked area where a sport is played. The striker raced the full length of the field.
- A branch of study, knowledge, or activity. She is a leading voice in the field of marine biology.
- A region of space where a force such as gravity or magnetism acts. The compass needle aligns with Earth's magnetic field. technical
- A space in a form or database that holds one item of data. Leave the middle-name field blank if you don't have one. technical
- To catch or stop a ball in play, or to handle questions. She fielded every reporter's question without missing a beat.
Did you know?
- The same word for a farmer's open meadow became physics' word for the invisible web of force filling all space - Michael Faraday borrowed 'field' in the 1840s to picture how magnets pull without touching.
Word origin
From Old English 'feld' meaning open land or plain, of Germanic origin, related to Dutch 'veld' and German 'Feld'.
Remember it
FIELD follows the rhyme: 'i before e' here is the friend ('field', 'yield', 'shield' all keep i-e).
A little poem
Wheat leans all one way-
an invisible hand of wind
writes across the field.
haiku
Wordplay
- The corn told the physicist it felt a strange pull - turns out it was just being out standing in its field.
What it teaches
Every meadow, every science, every screen-form shares one shape: open ground waiting to be worked.
Quick facts
What does FIELD mean?
An open area of land, often used for crops, grazing, or play.
Is FIELD a valid word?
Yes — FIELD is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FIELD?
FIELD has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FIELD come from?
From Old English 'feld' meaning open land or plain, of Germanic origin, related to Dutch 'veld' and German 'Feld'.
What can FIELD teach us?
Every meadow, every science, every screen-form shares one shape: open ground waiting to be worked.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.