# field
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English feeld, feld, from Old English feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /fiːld/
* (General American) IPA: /fild/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːld

### Noun

field (plural fields)
* A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
    There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.
** (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
*** 1883, Anthony Trollope, Mr. Scarborough's Family, Chap. XXIV:Harry shook his head, and wandered away miserable through the fields, and would not in these days even set his foot upon the soil of the park. “He was not going to intrude any farther,” he said to the rector. “You can come to church, at any rate,” his father said, “for he certainly will not be there while you are at the parsonage.” Oh yes, Harry would go to the church. “I have yet to understand that Mr. Prosper is owner of the church, and the path there from the rectory is, at any rate, open to the public;” for at Buston the church stands on one corner of the park.
*** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
* A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
    There were some cows grazing in a field.
    A crop circle was made in a corn field.
** 1816, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third, LV:The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o’er the wide and winding Rhine Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine And hills all rich with blossomed trees And fields which promise corn and wine And scatter’d cities crowning these Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strew’d a scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with mo.
** 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
* (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
    an oil field; a gold field
* An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
* A place where competitive matches are carried out.
** A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
*** c. 1599, William Shakespeare, King Henry V, act IV, scene VI:Tarry, sweet soul, for mine; then fly abreast, As in this glorious and well-foughten field We kept together in our chivalry!
*** 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, Verses 105–110:[…] What though the field be lost? All is not lost; th’ unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome; That glory never shall his wrath or might!
** An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
    soccer field
    Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked.
*** 1848, Anthony Trollope, The Kellys and the O’Kellys, Chap. III:Blake was a thorough gambler, and knew well how to make the most of the numerous chances which the turf afforded him. He had a large stud of horses, to the training and working of which he attended almost as closely as the person whom he paid for doing so. But it was in the betting-ring that he was most formidable. It was said, in Kildare Street, that no one at Tattersall's could beat him at a book. He had latterly been trying a wider field than the Curragh supplied him and had, on one or two occasions, run a horse in England with such success, as had placed him, at any rate, quite at the top of the Irish sporting tree.
*** (baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
*** (baseball) The outfield.
** A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
** A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
*** 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn, Chap. XXV:Dr. Finn understood enough of elections for Parliament, and of the nature of boroughs, to be aware that a candidate’s chance of success is very much improved by being early in the field.
** (metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
    This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field.
* Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
** (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
    magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field
** Any of certain structures serving cognition.
*** The extent of a given perception.
    field of view
*** A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
    The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture.
    Field work traditionally distinguishes true archaeologists from armchair archaeologists.
    He needs some time in the field before his judgment can be trusted.
*** A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
**** 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30:As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.
    He was an expert in the field of Chinese history.
*** An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
**** 1848, Thomas Macaulay, chapter IV, in The History Of England From the Accession of James II, volume 1:Penn was without doubt a man of eminent virtues. He had a strong sense of religious duty and a fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind. On one or two points of high importance, he had notions more correct than were, in his day, common even among men of enlarged minds: and as the proprietor and legislator of a province which, being almost uninhabited when it came into his possession, afforded a clear field for moral experiments, he had the rare good fortune of being able to carry his theories into practice without any compromise, and yet without any shock to existing institutions.
**** 1875, Anthony Trollope, chapter 2, in The Way We Live Now, London: Chapman and Hall, […]:Tidings had reached her of this and the other man’s success, and,—coming near to her still,—of this and that other woman’s earnings in literature. And it had seemed to her that, within moderate limits, she might give a wide field to her hopes.
*** (algebra) A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring.
    The set of rational numbers, $\mathbb {Q}$, is the prototypical field.
    Whereas a ring has three binary operators: (1) an additive operator, (2) a subtractive operator, and (3) a multiplicative operator, a field has four binary operators: the three ring binary operators and (4) a divisive operator. (N.B.: Only the additive and multiplicative operators are axiomatic. The subtractive operator may be derived by combining the additive and the unary negative operators; the divisive operator may be derived by combining the multiplicative and the unary inversive operators.)
** A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
*** (heraldry) The background of the shield.
*** (vexillology) The background of the flag.
*** (numismatics) The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
*** A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
    The form has fields for each element of the customer's home address and shipping address.
**** PHP 5 Forms Required Fields at W3Schools
    From the validation rules table on the previous page, we see that the "Name", "E-mail", and "Gender" fields are required. These fields cannot be empty and must be filled out in the HTML form.
*** A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
*** (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
**** 2007, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# with .NET 3.0, Special Edition, page 82:Read-only fields allow you to establish a point of data whose value is not known at compile time, but that should never change once established.
** (electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
* (cricket) Archaic form of fielder.
** 1854, James Pycroft, The Cricket Field:The manager should always choose his own Eleven; and, we have already hinted that fielding, rather than batting, is the qualification. A good field is sure to save runs, though the best batsman may not make any.

#### Usage notes

* In the mathematical sense, some languages, such as French, use a term that literally means body. This denotes a division ring or skew field, not necessarily commutative. If it is clear from the context that the quaternions and similar division rings are irrelevant, or that all division rings being considered are finite and therefore fields, this difference is ignored.

#### Synonyms

* (course of study or domain of knowledge): area, domain, sphere, realm
* (area reserved for playing a game): course (for golf), court (for racquet sports), ground, pitch (for soccer, rugby, cricket)
* (location for the input of information): input field, box

#### Hypernyms

* (algebra): Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring; simple ring ⊂ local ring

#### Hyponyms

* (algebra): ordered field, Pythagorean field, residue field, extension field

#### Derived terms

* afield
* algebraic number field
* algebra over a field
* antifield
* Archimedean ordered field
* Armfield
* ashfield
* Aston Fields
* backfield
* back the field
* Bakersfield
* ballfield
* ball field
* baseball field
* battle-field
* battlefield
* beanfield
* bergfield
* biofield
* bitfield
* bleachfield
* blockfield
* Bloomfield
* borefield
* brickfield
* bright field
* broken field
* brownfield
* canefield
* cane field
* cede the field
* Celtic field
* center field
* centerfield
* centrefield
* circle the field
* Clarkefield
* clayfield
* coalfield
* color field
* colour field painting
* contrafield
* Copperfield
* cornfield
* cottonfield
* cricket field
* crossfield
* crown-of-the-field
* Crutchfield
* crystal field theory
* cyclotomic field
* darkfield
* debris field
* Deerfield
* defensive field
* depth of field
* Dirac field
* Ditchfield
* downfield
* drain field
* dunefield
* Earlsfield
* Edenfield
* eigenfield
* Einstein field equation
* electrical field
* electric field
* electromagnetic field
* energy field
* far field, far-field
* fell-field
* fellfield
* Field
* fieldable
* field allowance
* field ambulance
* field application engineer
* field applications engineer
* field artillery
* field axiom
* fieldball
* field bean
* field bed
* field bindweed
* field book
* field-book
* field boot
* fieldboot
* field capacity
* field coil
* field colours
* field corn
* field cornet
* fieldcraft
* field cricket
* field day
* field dress
* field dressing
* field effect
* field electron emission
* field elm
* field emission
* field emission display
* field emission microscope
* field emission microscopy
* fielden
* field engineer
* field eryngo
* field event
* field extension
* fieldfare
* field fluffweed
* fieldfolk
* fieldful
* field game
* field glass
* field glasses
* field goal
* field goal percentage
* field grade
* field guide
* field gun
* fieldhand
* field hand
* field handball
* field hockey
* field hockey player
* field holler
* field horsetail
* field hospital
* fieldhouse
* field house
* field ice
* field investigation
* fieldish
* field jacket
* field kitchen
* field lacrosse
* field lens
* fieldless
* fieldlike
* field line
* fieldling
* fieldlore
* fieldman
* field map
* field maple
* field marshal
* field meet
* field meeting
* fieldmeter
* field mint
* field mouse
* field mushroom
* field music
* field nigger
* field night
* fieldnote
* field of battle
* field officer
* field of fire
* field of force
* field of fractions
* field of honor
* field of honour
* field of play
* field of quotients
* field of scalars
* field of study
* field of view
* field of vision
* field painter
* field painting
* field pea
* field pennycress
* fieldpiece
* field police
* field poppy
* field-programmable gate array
* field rat
* field ration
* field restriction
* field salad
* fieldscale
* fieldscape
* field seam
* fieldset
* field shift
* fieldside
* fieldsite
* field-slave
* field slave
* fieldsman
* field sobriety test
* field sport
* field star
* fieldstone
* field stop
* field strip
* field study
* field telephone
* field tent
* field test
* field-test
* field theory
* field tile
* field train
* field training officer
* field trash
* field trial
* field trip
* field tube
* field unit
* field vole
* fieldwalk
* fieldwalker
* fieldwalking
* fieldward
* fieldwards
* fieldwide
* field wife
* fieldwoman
* fieldworker
* fieldwork, field work
* fieldwort
* fieldwren
* fieldy
* finite field
* fixed field
* flatfield
* Flowery Field
* flow field
* football field
* force-field
* force field
* forefield
* Freshfield
* Galois field
* gas field
* ghost field
* goldfield
* gold field
* grainfield
* grassfield
* gravitational field
* greenfield
* Greenfield
* groin field
* groinfield
* gumfield
* gyrofield
* Haddonfield
* Hardy field
* hayfield
* Heathfield
* heightfield
* hemifield
* Higgs field
* Himalayan field rat
* Holyfield
* homefield
* home field advantage
* hop field
* hydrofield
* hyperfield
* ice field
* infield
* input field
* in the field
* intrafield
* ironfield
* isofield
* jackfield
* keep the field
* Killing field
* killing field
* Killing vector field
* landing field
* lava field
* leadfield
* leave it all on the field
* leftfield
* left field
* Leitchfield
* level playing field
* Levi-Civita field
* lichfield
* ligand field theory
* light field
* litchfield
* Littlefield
* London Fields
* magnetic field
* maizefield
* mantle field
* Mayfield
* member field
* merit field
* midfield
* minefield
* misfield
* Moorefield
* Moorfields
* Mountfield
* multifield
* near field communication
* near field, near-field
* number field
* obstruct the field
* off-field
* oil field, oilfield
* old-field colt
* on-field
* onfield
* open field
* open-field
* open-field system
* open-field test
* orefield
* outfield
* outlying field
* paddy field
* paleofield
* pauper's field
* Pennfield
* perfect field
* photofield
* playfield
* playing field
* play the field
* play to the field
* porefield
* Porterfield
* potter's field
* pottersfield
* prefield
* Priestfield
* prime field
* quadratic field
* quantum field
* quantum field theory
* quasifield
* reality distortion field
* Redfield
* ricefield
* rice field
* right field
* ring field
* root field
* rotating magnetic field
* scalar field
* semantic field
* semifield
* short-field
* showfield
* skifield
* slope field
* snowfield
* soccer field
* soft-field
* splitting field
* sportsfield
* sports field
* Springfield
* spring field cricket
* starfield
* stfield
* strewn field
* striped field mouse
* stubble field
* stubble-field
* subfield
* superfield
* take the field
* take to the field
* thermofield
* Toolik Field Station
* topological field
* townfield
* track-and-field
* track and field
* upfield
* urnfield
* variation of the field
* vector field
* virgin field
* visual field
* volcanic field
* Waitsfield
* wakefield
* wavefield
* wave field synthesis
* wellfield
* West Fields
* wheatfield
* Wickfield
* wide-field
* widefield
* Williamsfield
* Winnfield
* Woodsfield
* yield the field

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: フィールド (fīrudo)

#### Translations

Afrikaans: veld (af)
Akkadian: 𒀀𒊮 m (eqlu), 𒆳 m (šadû)
Albanian: fushë (sq), lamth
Amharic: መስክ (mäsk)
Arabic: حَقْل m (ḥaql), ضَيْعَة f (ḍayʕa), سَهْل (ar) m (sahl), مَيْدَان (ar) m (maydān)
Egyptian Arabic: غيط m (ḡéṭ), حقل m (ḥaql)
Hijazi Arabic: حَقِل m (ḥagil)
Aramaic: חקלא m (ḥaqlā)
Classical Syriac: ܚܩܠܐ m (ḥaqlā)
Arin: eol
Armenian: դաշտ (hy) (dašt)
Aromanian: cãmpu
Asturian: campu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: sahə (az), tarla (az)
Bashkir: ялан (yalan), дала (dala)
Basque: alor
Bavarian: Foid, Föi, Föjd
Belarusian: по́ле n (pólje)
Bengali: ক্ষেত্র (bn) (khetro)
Budukh: ник (nik)
Bulgarian: поле́ (bg) n (polé), ни́ва (bg) f (níva)
Burmese: လယ်ပြင် (my) (lai-prang), လယ်ယာ (my) (laiya), လယ် (my) (lai), ပြင် (my) (prang)
Catalan: camp (ca) m
Chechen: аре (are), латта (latta)
Chinese:
Dungan: тан (tan)
Mandarin: 田間 / 田间 (zh) (tiánjiān), 野外 (zh) (yěwài), 野 (zh) (yě), 田 (zh) (tián)
Chuvash: уй (uj)
Cornish: park m, gwel m
Crimean Tatar: çöl
Czech: pole (cs) n
Dalmatian: cuomp m
Danish: felt (da) c
Dutch: veld (nl) n
Egyptian: (sḫt f), (pgꜣ m), (šꜣ m), (jꜣdt f)
Esperanto: kampo, kamparo (collective)
Estonian: väli, lagendik, avamaa, põld (et)
Finnish: kenttä (fi)
French: champ (fr) m, campo (fr) m
Middle French: champ m
Old French: champ m
Friulian: cjamp m, čhamp m
Galician: campo (gl) m, agro m
Ge'ez: ሐቅል m (ḥäḳl), ፂዖት f (ṣ́iʿot), ገዳም m (gädam), ወፍር m (wäfr)
Georgian: ველი (veli), მინდორი (mindori)
German: Feld (de) n, Gefilde (de) n, Heide (de) f, Heideland n, Flur (de) f
Alemannic German: fald
Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌹 f (haiþi)
Greek: αγρός (el) m (agrós), χωράφι (el) n (choráfi)
Ancient: ἀγρός m (agrós)
Mycenaean: 𐀀𐀒𐀫 (a-ko-ro), 𐀑𐀴𐀕𐀙 (ki-ti-me-na)
Guaraní: kokue
Gujarati: ક્ષેત્ર (kṣetra)
Hawaiian: kahua
Hebrew: שָׂדֶה (he) m (sadé)
Hindi: क्षेत्र (hi) m (kṣetra), खेत (hi) m (khet)
Hungarian: föld (hu), puszta (hu), róna (hu), táj (hu), vidék (hu), szabad (hu)
Icelandic: völlur (is) m
Ido: agro (io)
Indonesian: bidang (id), padang (id)
Ingush: аре (are)
Italian: campo (it)
Japanese: 野原 (ja) (のはら, nohara), 野 (ja) (の, no), 原 (ja) (はら, hara), 原野 (ja) (げんや, gen'ya)
Javanese: sawah (jv)
Kashmiri: مٲدان (mạ̄dān)
Kazakh: дала (dala)
Khmer: វាល (km) (viəlĕəʼ)
Kongo: ngongo
Korean: 밭 (ko) (bat), 들판 (ko) (deulpan), 필드 (pildeu), 들 (ko) (deul)
Kyrgyz: талаа (ky) (talaa)
Ladin: ciamp m
Lao: ທົ່ງ (thong), ສະໜາມ (sa nām)
Latgalian: teirums, dierva
Latin: campus m, rūs (la) n
Latvian: lauks (lv) m, tīrums m
Lezgi: ник (nik)
Lithuanian: laukas
Lutuv: lu
Luxembourgish: Feld n
Macedonian: по́ле (mk) n (póle)
Malay: bidang, padang (ms)
Maltese: għalqa f
Manchu: ᡨᠠᠯᠠ (tala)
Manx: magher m
Maori: tahua, whīra
Megleno-Romanian: cǫmp n
Middle English: feeld
Minangkabau: padang (min)
Minoan: 𐘇𐘾𐘘 m (akaru)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: талбар (mn) (talbar), талбай (mn) (talbaj)
Navajo: dáʼákʼeh
North Frisian: (Mooring) fälj n; (Föhr-Amrum) fial n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: åker (no) m, vang (no) m, voll (no) m
Occitan: camp (oc)
Odia: କ୍ଷେତ୍ର (or) (kshetra)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: полѥ n (polje)
Old East Slavic: поле n (pole)
Old English: feld m
Old South Arabian: 𐩢𐩤𐩡 m (ḥql)
Oromo: dirree
Pannonian Rusyn: польо n (polʹo)
Pashto: ميدان m (maydãn), مزرعه f (mazra'á)
Persian:
Dari: مَیْدَان (maydān)
Iranian Persian: مِیْدان (meydân)
Phoenician: 𐤔𐤃 m (šd)
Plautdietsch: Spap f
Polabian: püli n
Polish: pole (pl) n
Portuguese: campo (pt) m
Romanian: câmp (ro) n, agru (ro) n
Romansch: camp, champ, tgomp
Russian: по́ле (ru) n (póle), луг (ru) m (lug), ни́ва (ru) f (níva)
Sanskrit: अज्र (sa) m (ajra)
Sardinian:
Campidanese: campu
Logudorese: campile, campu, avru
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̏ље n
Roman: pȍlje (sh) n
Sicilian: campu (scn) m
Sinhalese: ක්ෂේත්‍රය (kṣētraya)
Slovak: pole n
Slovene: polje (sl) n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: pólo n
Southern Altai: чӧл (čöl), тала (tala)
Spanish: campo (es) m, agro (es)
Swabian: Fäld
Swedish: fält (sv) n, åker (sv) c
Tahitian: tahua
Tajik: майдон (tg) (maydon), дашт (dašt), киштзор (kištzor)
Tatar: кыр (tt) (qır)
Thai: สนาม (th) (sà-nǎam), ทุ่ง (th) (tûng)
Tibetan: ཞིང་ཁ (zhing kha)
Tofa: шөл
Turkish: alan (tr), tarla (tr), saha (tr)
Turkmen: meýdan (tk)
Tuvan: шөл (şöl)
Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎄 m (šd)
Ukrainian: по́ле (uk) n (póle), лан m (lan)
Urdu: کھیت m (khet), مَیدان m (maidān)
Urum: чӧль
Uyghur: دالا (dala)
Uzbek: dala (uz), maydon (uz)
Venetan: camp m
Vietnamese: cánh đồng (vi)
Walloon: tchamp (wa) m
Welsh: cae (cy) m, (literary) maes (cy) m
West Frisian: fjild (fy) n
Yakut: хонуу (qonuu)
Yiddish: פֿעלד n (feld)
Zande: bina :
Afrikaans: veld (af)
Akkadian: 𒀀𒊮 m (eqlu), 𒀀𒃼 m (ugāru)
Albanian: arë (sq)
Andi: хур (xur)
Arabic: حَقْل m (ḥaql), ضَيْعَة f (ḍayʕa)
Egyptian Arabic: حقل m (ḥaql)
Aramaic: חקלא m (ḥaqlā)
Classical Nahuatl: milli, cuemitl
Classical Syriac: ܚܩܠܐ m (ḥaqlā)
Armenian: դաշտ (hy) (dašt), հանդ (hy) (hand), արտ (hy) (art)
Avar: хур (xur)
Bashkir: баҫыу (baśıw) (for crops), көтөүлек (kötöwlek) (for animals)
Bavarian: Foid, Föjd
Bulgarian: ни́ва (bg) f (níva)
Catalan: camp (ca) m
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉⴳⵔ m (igr)
Chamicuro: pawa
Cherokee: ᏠᎨᏏ (tlogesi)
Cheyenne: ho'eo'o
Chinese:
Dungan: тан (tan)
Mandarin: (for crops) 田 (zh) (tián), 田野 (zh) (tiányě)
Chuvash: уй (uj)
Cornish: gwel m
Czech: pastvina (cs) f (for animals), pole (cs) n (for crops)
Danish: mark (da) c, ager (da) c
Dutch: veld (nl) n, akker (nl) n (for crops), wei (nl) f, weide (nl) f, weiland (nl) n (for animals)
Dzongkha: ཞིང (zhing)
Egyptian: (ꜣḥt f), (sḫt f) (for crops), (jꜣdt f) (for animals)
Esperanto: kampo
Estonian: väli, põld (et) (for crops), nurm, niit (et), koppel (for animals), karjamaa (for animals), aiamaa (et) (for crops), tara
Finnish: pelto (fi) (for crops), laidun (fi) (for animals)
French: champ (fr) m
Galician: leira (gl) m, agro m, terreo (gl) m
Gallo: tio m
Gallurese: campu
Ge'ez: ፂዖት f (ṣ́iʿot), ገራህት m (gäraht)
Georgian: ველი (veli)
German: Feld (de) n, Acker (de) m, Weide (de) f (for livestock), Esch (de) m, Flur (de) f, landwirtschaftliche Nutzfläche f (bureaucratese), Trade f (for livestock), Weideland (de) n (for livestock), Ackerland (de) n
Gothic: 𐌰𐌺𐍂𐍃 m (akrs)
Greek: αγρός (el) m (agrós), λιβάδι (el) n (livádi)
Ancient Greek: ἔργον (érgon) (for tilled fields)
Ancient: ἀγρός m (agrós)
Mycenaean: 𐀑𐀴𐀕𐀙 (ki-ti-me-na), 𐀀𐀒𐀫 (a-ko-ro)
Hebrew: שָׂדֶה (he) m (sadé)
Hindi: खेत (hi) m (khet)
Hungarian: mező (hu)
Icelandic: akur (is) m
Indonesian: ladang (id)
Irish: páirc (ga) f, gort m, garraí m, fál m
Italian: campo (it) m
Ivatan: takey
Japanese: 畑 (ja) (はたけ, hatake), 耕地 (ja) (こうち, kōchi)
Khmer: ចំការ (km) (cɑmkaa)
Kikuyu: mũgũnda class 3
Korean: 밭 (ko) (bat) (for crops)
Latin: campus, ager (la) m
Latvian: lauks (lv) m
Lithuanian: laukas m
Lü: ᦺᦣᧈᦓᦱ (hay¹naa)
Macedonian: ни́ва (mk) f (níva), по́ле (mk) n (póle), па́сиште n (pásište)
Manchu: ᡠᠰᡳᠨ (usin)
Maori: whīra, pātiki
Middle English: feeld
Minoan: 𐘇𐘾𐘘 m (akaru)
Mòcheno: vèlt n
Ngazidja Comorian: shiunga class 7/8
Norman: clios m (Jersey), cllos m (continental Normandy), courti m (Guernsey)
Northern Sami: bealdu
Norwegian:
Bokmål: åker (no) m (for crops)
Ojibwe: gitigaan
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: полѥ n (polje)
Old English: æcer m
Old South Arabian: 𐩢𐩤𐩡 m (ḥql), 𐩯𐩱𐩵 m (s³ʾd)
Ottoman Turkish: تارلا (tarla)
Phoenician: 𐤔𐤃 m (šd)
Polish: pastwisko (pl) n (for animals), pole (pl) n (for crops)
Portuguese: campo (pt) m, terreno (pt) m
Romanian: câmp (ro)
Russian: (for animals) па́стбище (ru) n (pástbišče), (for crops) по́ле (ru) n (póle)
Sanskrit: क्षेत्र (sa) n (kṣetra)
Sardinian:
Campidanese: campu
Logudorese: campu
Sassarese: gampu
Scottish Gaelic: achadh m, blàr m, dail f, magh m, mìn m, raon m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: па̏шња̄к m, по̏ље n
Roman: pȁšnjāk (sh) m, pȍlje (sh) n
Slovak: pole n, roľa f
Slovene: pašnik m (for animals), polje (sl) n (for crops)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: pólo n
Spanish: campo (es) m
Sumerian: 𒀀𒊮 (ašag), 𒀀𒃼 (agar)
Swabian: Fäld
Swahili: shamba (sw) class 5/6
Swedish: fält (sv) n, åker (sv) c
Talysh:
Asalemi: دشت (dašt)
Tarifit: iyyar m
Telugu: చేను (te) (cēnu), పొలము (te) (polamu)
Tetum: to'os, rai-luan, kampu
Thai: ทุ่ง (th) (tûng), ไร่ (th) (râi), นา (th) (naa)
Tocharian B: mīṣe
Turkish: tarla (tr)
Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎄 m (šd), 𐎜𐎂𐎗 m (ủgr)
Vietnamese: (for crops) ruộng (vi)
Võro: põld
Welsh: cae (cy) m
Yiddish: פֿעלד n (feld) :
Arabic: سَاحَة (ar) f (sāḥa), سَاحَة الْمَعْرَكَة f (sāḥa al-maʕraka), سَاحَة الْشَرَف f (sāḥa(t) al-šaraf)
Azerbaijani: döüyş meydanı
Bashkir: яу ҡыры (yaw qırı)
Bavarian: Foid
Belarusian: по́ле бо́ю n (pólje bóju), по́ле бі́твы n (pólje bítvy)
Bulgarian: бо́йно поле́ n (bójno polé), бои́ще n (boíšte) (dated or poetic), полесраже́ние (bg) n (polesražénie)
Catalan: camp (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 戰場 / 战场 (zh) (zhànchǎng)
Czech: pole (cs) n, bitevní pole, bojiště (cs) n
Dutch: slagveld (nl) n
Egyptian: (bꜣwj m), (pgꜣ m), (prj m)
Estonian: tanner (et), tallermaa, lahingväli
Finnish: kenttä (fi), taistelukenttä (fi)
Galician: campo (gl) m
Georgian: ბრძოლის ველი (brʒolis veli)
German: Feld (de) n, Schlachtfeld (de) n
Hebrew: שָׂדֶה (he) m (sadé)
Hindi: युद्धक्षेत्र m (yuddhakṣetra)
Hungarian: harctér (hu), csatatér (hu), harcmező (hu)
Japanese: 戦場 (ja) (せんじょう, senjō), 戦地 (ja) (せんち, senchi)
Korean: 전장(戰場) (ko) (jeonjang)
Latvian: lauks (lv), karalauks, kaujas lauks
Maori: pae o te pakanga, kauhanga riri
Middle English: feeld
Phoenician: 𐤔𐤃 m (šd)
Polish: pole (pl) n
Portuguese: campo (pt) m
Romanian: câmp de bătaie n
Russian: по́ле бо́я n (póle bója), по́ле би́твы n (póle bítvy), по́ле бра́ни n (póle bráni)
Slovak: bojisko n
Spanish: campo (es) m
Swabian: Fäld
Swedish: fält (sv) n, slagfält (sv) n
Thai: สนาม (th) (sà-nǎam)
Ukrainian: по́ле бо́ю n (póle bóju), по́ле би́тви n (póle býtvy), побо́їще n (pobójišče)
Welsh: maes (cy) m :
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#### Further reading

* field on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Verb

field (third-person singular simple present fields, present participle fielding, simple past and past participle fielded)
* (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
* (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
    The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.
* (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
    The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
** 2012 August 23, Alasdair Lamont, “Hearts 0-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:On balance, it was harsh on Hearts, who had given as good as they got against their more-fancied opponents, who, despite not being at full strength, fielded a multi-million pound team.
* (transitive) To answer; to address.
    She will field questions immediately after her presentation.
* (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
    He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.
* (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.
    to field a new land-mine detector

#### Synonyms

* (intercept or catch (a ball) and play it):
* (place a team in (a game)):
* (answer, address): address, answer, deal with, respond to

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “be the team throwing and catching the ball”): bat

#### Derived terms

* field off
* field out
* field up
* misfield

#### Translations

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### See also

* Field in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

### Further reading

* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “field”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Fidel, felid, filed, flied

## Middle English
### Noun

field
* Alternative form of feeld

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* fild, fyld, fæld

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *faldi, from Proto-Germanic *faldiz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fi͜yld/, [fi͜yɫd]

### Noun

field m
* fold, crease (of clothing), plait, wrinkle
* a revolution, turn, roll
* (figurative) turn, course (of time)

#### Declension

Strong i-stem:

#### Derived terms

* fieldstōl

#### Related terms

* fealdan

#### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fyld”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
* Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “fyld”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.