field

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of FIELD

a small area of usually open land <a field that is the frequent site of neighborhood softball games>

Synonyms clearing, ground, lot, parcel, plat, plot, tract

Related Words common(s), croft [chiefly British]; grass, green, greensward, lawn; glade, grassland, heath, heathland, lea (or ley), meadow, moor, pasture, pastureland

a region of activity, knowledge, or influence <the first woman to enter the field of medicine>

Synonyms area, arena, bailiwick, barony, business, circle, demesne, department, discipline, domain, element, fief, fiefdom, firmament, front, game, kingdom, line, precinct, province, realm, specialty, sphere, terrain, walk

a part or portion having no fixed boundaries <if you set your camera lens to small aperture, the field of sharp focus will be quite large>

Synonyms area, demesne, field, zone

Related Words corner, section; locale, locality, location, locus, place, point, position, site, space, spot

a place where a battle takes place <the field where two mighty armies met and changed the course of history>

Synonyms battleground, field

Related Words battle line, front, front line, ground; beachhead, bridgehead, foothold; killing field

a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and a terminal <Worsham Field in Corpus Christi used to be home to a sizable crop dusting operation>

Synonyms aerodrome [chiefly British], airdrome, airfield, field

a wide space or area <the cemetery's field of crosses for the war's fallen seemed to stretch to infinity>

Synonyms breadth, distance, expansion, extent, field, length, plain, reach, sheet, spread, stretch, waste

active fighting during the course of a war <in the classroom the general had been a brilliant theoretician, but in the field he proved to be a wholly incompetent tactician>

Synonyms action, battle, field