field
/fiːld/
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Translation
A wide piece of open ground, often with grass, where food grows or animals stay.
Word origin
From Old English feld, meaning open land with no trees.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- feld
Grammar
Gender
Pluralfields
Examples
cows .
Here "field" is the open green ground where the animals stay.
across .
"Field" is the wide piece of land they walked over.
farmer .
"Fields" is the plural, meaning more than one field.
A field is a wide piece of flat, open ground, usually covered in grass. Farmers grow food in fields, and animals like cows and sheep eat the grass there. Fields are mostly found in the countryside, away from towns.
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