Kilo Lingo

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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