cornfield
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- noun
- /ˈkɔrnˌfiːld/
:
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.
- It's actually way out in the cornfields past Howard's Grove.
- Rolling hills and just green, beautiful fields, you know, cornfields.
- It's, it's like on it basically in the middle of cornfields and, and stuff.
- So let's take him at face value rather than trying to wish that into the cornfield it is to to get rid of it.
Examples
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The farmer checked his crops in the cornfield every morning.
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As summer approached, the cornfield turned a vibrant green, promising a good harvest.
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What percentage of of my cornfield does this take?
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Like an old tree in the middle of a cornfield.
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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.
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Nothing but cows and cornfields for hours.
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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.
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Manchester, Iowa, where there was nothing but cornfields, isolated Henry from family and friends.
Fiction book (1994)
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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.