grainfield
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- noun
- /ˈɡreɪnˌfiːld/
:
campo de grano
- The farmer walked through the golden grainfield as he inspected the wheat plants.
Examples
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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.
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We enjoyed a peaceful picnic beside the beautiful grainfield that seemed to stretch endlessly.
Synonyms
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1.0
An area of open land used for farming or grazing
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1.7
Land where people grow crops or raise animals
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3.0
Land that is used to grow crops like grains or vegetables
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4.1
A field near a farmhouse used for growing crops
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1.9
A field where crops like wheat and barley grow
Land used to grow grain like wheat or corn
Land prepared by farmers for growing crops
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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.