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grainfield

grainfield

1 2.6
A field where farmers grow plants like wheat or oats
  • noun
  • /ˈɡreɪnˌfiːld/
translation icon : campo de grano
  • The farmer walked through the golden grainfield as he inspected the wheat plants.

Examples

  • One was Meynoc's father, Bombrul, who should be in the grainfields at this hour.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Eleyna was no gossip, yet there she'd stood all morning, barring his flight with the older boys over the ripening grainfields and on to glory at the minnow brook.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • There was a place beyond the grainfields where the dead were buried.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • A son of the grainfields, learning to read, write, and tally numbers.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • He made up tales about the creatures of the grainfields.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • I left a message of five words on a scrap of paper and took myself to a stranger's grainfield under a high, gray, dribbling sky, where I gathered in the amaranth crop as though my future depended on it.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • And Rufina's house was way down the far end of the street, past the well at the Y-fork, and as far again, almost to where the cobbles gave way to a stony track at the grainfields' edge.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • "The monsoons passed, the skies lightened, and Hwyllum went out to the muddy grainfields, cutting drainage lines and preparing the soil for spring tillage.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • During the summer, the grainfield was filled with ripe oats ready for harvest.

  • We enjoyed a peaceful picnic beside the beautiful grainfield that seemed to stretch endlessly.

Synonyms

field
vsgrainfield
742 1.0

An area of open land used for farming or grazing

is specific to plots planted with cereal crops rather than any open land
farmland
vsgrainfield
50 1.7

Land where people grow crops or raise animals

is limited to land growing cereal crops rather than general farm use
cropland
vsgrainfield
4 3.0

Land that is used to grow crops like grains or vegetables

is restricted to fields planted with cereal crops rather than any crop
infield
vsgrainfield
  • UK
1 4.1

A field near a farmhouse used for growing crops

is impartial to location, focusing on cereal cultivation rather than proximity
grain field
vsgrainfield
1 1.9

A field where crops like wheat and barley grow

is the same meaning but written as one word
grainland
vsgrainfield
3.5

Land used to grow grain like wheat or corn

is narrower, used only for fields of specific cereal crops
plowland
vsgrainfield
  • US
5.6

Land prepared by farmers for growing crops

focuses on crop type rather than the soil being recently tilled

How Big

estate
553 4.2
farm
1.0
grainfield
1 2.6
plot
81 1.9
patch
153 2.7

Surface Forms

grainfield singular
grainfields plural

Etymology

The word grainfield comes from the simple parts grain ('seed', like wheat or barley) and field ('open land'), so it literally means a field where grain is grown. Imagine a wide, golden sea of seeds waving in the wind, ready for harvest.