football field
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- noun
- /ˈfʊtbɔl fiːld/
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campo de fútbol
- Cam, what's it like being back in your hometown after the amazing season you had on the football field?
- size of a football field
And I had success on a football field, singular success.
- And I had success on a football field, singular success.
- So my whole life was spent either on the football field or on his job sites.
- One wave drove me at least more than a football field underwater.
- But you told me a story about running, I want to say, on a football field while filming.
- And the coach comes over and goes, Bramlett, there are no friends on the football field.
- Then he said to me the iPhone could definitely not recognize me across a football field walking with a baseball cap on.
- I like to play good venues, whether they're amphitheaters, whether they're just regular theaters or or could be a football field.
- And the way we treat sport in the United States is that we replace the, the one day of worship in, in church with a day of worship on the football field.
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The local team celebrated their victory on the football field with cheers from their fans.
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He was able to take lessons that we learned from the football field and apply them to our life away from the football field.
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So my whole life was spent either on the football field or on his job sites.
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And then I know this football field right here is where I played tackle football for boys.
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How a man handles himself on the football field says a lot about his character.
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That was my biggest thing, to go on a football field and be so feared.
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So in order to get to the field we're going to, we had to walk by the football field and there was active practice going on.
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It was like a serious get-on-your-knee kind of proposal right in the middle of the football field.
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To his right, the high school band marched soundlessly down the football field, swinging their instruments.
Fiction book (2001) -
The children played soccer happily on the football field during recess.
Synonyms
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An area marked for playing sports like soccer
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An area of ground marked for playing sports like soccer
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An area of grass or artificial grass marked for playing soccer with goalposts
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A marked field with lines where American football is played
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An area of land prepared and marked for playing sports
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An area of land people prepare and keep for playing sports like soccer or track
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Morphology
The meaning 'a pitch where football is played' is directly and compositionally derived from 'football' (the sport) + 'field' (a playing ground). This common noun-noun compound follows standard English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Football field comes from the simple picture of a field — an open piece of land — used to play football, a game played by kicking a ball. Long ago people played the game on open fields and later these places were marked with lines and goals, so the phrase now means the 'area where the game is played'.