· a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat"

Hypernym(s): tract, piece_of_land, piece_of_ground, parcel_of_land, parcel

· a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"

Synonym(s): battlefield, battleground, field_of_battle, field_of_honor

Hypernym(s): tract, piece_of_land, piece_of_ground, parcel_of_land, parcel

· somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected; "anthropologists do much of their work in the field"

Hypernym(s): region

· a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"

Synonym(s): discipline, subject, subject_area, subject_field, field_of_study, study, bailiwick

Hypernym(s): knowledge_domain, knowledge_base, domain

· the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

Synonym(s): field_of_force, force_field

Hypernym(s): physical_phenomenon

· a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field"

Synonym(s): field_of_operation, line_of_business

Hypernym(s): commercial_enterprise, business_enterprise, business

· a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"

Synonym(s): sphere, domain, area, orbit, arena

Hypernym(s): environment

· a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"

Synonym(s): playing_field, athletic_field, playing_area

Hypernym(s): tract, piece_of_land, piece_of_ground, parcel_of_land, parcel

· extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"

Synonym(s): plain, champaign

Hypernym(s): land, dry_land, earth, ground, solid_ground, terra_firma

· (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; "the set of all rational numbers is a field"

Hypernym(s): set

· a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"

Synonym(s): field_of_operations, theater, theater_of_operations, theatre, theatre_of_operations

Hypernym(s): region

· all of the horses in a particular horse race

Hypernym(s): set

· all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

Hypernym(s): set

· a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"

Hypernym(s): geographical_area, geographic_area, geographical_region, geographic_region

· (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

Hypernym(s): set

· the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

Synonym(s): field_of_view

Hypernym(s): visual_percept, visual_image

· a place where planes take off and land

Synonym(s): airfield, landing_field, flying_field

Hypernym(s): facility, installation

· catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

Hypernym(s): handle, palm

· play as a fielder

Hypernym(s): play

· answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"

Hypernym(s): answer, reply, respond

· select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"

Hypernym(s): choose, take, select, pick_out