cornfield

cornfield

English

Etymology

corn +‎ field.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːnfiːld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹnˌfild/
• Hyphenation: corn‧field

Noun

cornfield (plural cornfields)

1. A field of corn, wheat or other cereal crop
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

     "Your Silver Shoes will carry you over the desert," replied Glinda. "If you had known their power you could have gone back to your Aunt Em the very first day you came to this country."

     "But then I should not have had my wonderful brains!" cried the Scarecrow. "I might have passed my whole life in the farmer's cornfield."

Derived terms

• cornfield meet

Translations

a field of corn

Armenian: հանդ (hy) (hand) Cebuano: kamaisan, maisan Chinese: Mandarin: 麥田／麦田 (zh) (màitián) Esperanto: maizkampo, grenkampo Finnish: viljapelto (fi), maissipelto French: champ de blé m Galician: seara f, senra f Georgian: ყანა (q̇ana) German: Kornfeld (de) n Greek: αραβοσιτώνας m (aravositónas) Japanese: トウモロコシ畑 (tōmorokoshi-batake) Kaqchikel: awän Khmer: ចំការពោត (cɑmkaa poot) Latgalian: dryva, dierva Latin: seges f Latvian: druva Navajo: dáʼákʼeh Portuguese: milharal (pt) m (of maize), seara (pt) f (of any cereal) Russian: кукуру́зное по́ле n (kukurúznoje póle) Spanish: milpa (es) f, maizal m, mieses (es) f pl Swedish: majsfält (sv) n

Anagrams

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