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cornfield

cornfield

43 1.0
A field where corn grows
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔrnˌfiːld/
translation icon : campo de maíz
  • Children played hide and seek among the tall stalks in the cornfield.

It's actually way out in the cornfields past Howard's Grove.

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Examples

  • The farmer checked his crops in the cornfield every morning.

  • As summer approached, the cornfield turned a vibrant green, promising a good harvest.

  • What percentage of of my cornfield does this take?

  • Like an old tree in the middle of a cornfield.

  • Now we were looking at the line where the cornfield ended and a soybean field began.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The light is shining through the cornfield, the corn patch here.

  • Nothing but cows and cornfields for hours.

  • Without saying a word, she waited until sowing time and planted a cornfield all by herself.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • When you're creating a cornfield, you're creating life.

  • Manchester, Iowa, where there was nothing but cornfields, isolated Henry from family and friends.

    Fiction book (1994)

Compounds

An event in a cornfield where people meet to celebrate

How Big

plantation
77 3.6
cornfield
43 1.0
field
742 1.0
plot
81 1.9
patch
153 2.7

Surface Forms

cornfield singular
cornfields plural

Etymology

Cornfield is easy to picture: it joins corn ('grain', in American English often 'maize') and field ('open land'), so it simply means land where grain or maize is grown.