cornfield

[kawrn-feeld]

noun

1. a field in which corn is grown.

cornfield

/ ˈkɔːnˌfiːld /

noun

1. a field planted with cereal crops

Word History and Origins

Origin of cornfield¹

First recorded in 1275–1325, cornfield is from the Middle English word cornfield. See corn ¹, field

Example Sentences

We drove through the Indiana cornfields where he had worked and lived his entire life.

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And people like the tree-lined urban street better than the cornfield.

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Las Vegas — I turn a bend and see a figure in a cornfield.

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Now the formally restless Susan Choi turns to social realism in her beguiling if baggy “Flashlight,“ mapping a family’s journey among political autocracy and personal pain, from Midwestern cornfields to the Pacific Rim.

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He was captured in a hospital gown in a cornfield hours later.

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