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wheatfield

wheatfield

1 2.0
A field where farmers grow wheat
  • noun
  • /ˈwiːtˌfiːld/
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  • Children love to run through the wheatfield, feeling the soft stalks brush against their skin.

Examples

  • Nevertheless, he sought to paint a series of wheatfields, vineyards, olive groves, and cypresses; but only the field behind the asylum, the olive groves, and, to some extent, the cypresses received his repeated attention.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The golden wheatfield stretched as far as the eye could see under the bright sun.

  • Say sweetly: "Then to lie with you in that wheatfield, near the water tower."

    Fiction book (1997)
  • "Sounds like a plague of grasshoppers chewing a wheatfield," Martin said.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • "Are you satisfied with all the arrangements so far?" I started as we began to cut a path around the barn through the wheatfields toward Route 30.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Those slightly out-of-focus wavy wheatfields at the opening of the film are from Katrina Shoop's farm.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Standing in a wheatfield, crossing the road out to Hog Canyon Lake, or running through the timber with a doe, even in deer country, he made a lasting impression on those who caught him up close in their headlights.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • The mountain's lower slopes were also pleasant, green, and thatched with wheatfields and groves of gray-leafed olive trees.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Farmers gathered to discuss the best practices for planting in the upcoming wheatfield season.

Synonyms

wheat field
vswheatfield
7 1.4

A field where wheat grows

is written as a single word rather than two separate words

Surface Forms

wheatfield singular
wheatfields plural

Etymology

The word wheatfield comes from two simple words: wheat, from an old English word for the 'grain we eat', and field, meaning 'open land'. So a wheatfield is literally 'open land where wheat is grown', which explains its modern meaning.