cornfield
Americannoun
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cornfields
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of cornfield
First recorded in 1275–1325, cornfield is from the Middle English word cornfield. See corn 1, field
Vocabulary lists containing cornfield
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For Walter, 66, who grew up playing youth baseball about 50 miles from the Iowa cornfield that became Kevin Costner’s “Field of Dreams,” that financial success was all well and good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
The greatest variation appeared when bees flew above the cornfield, where the scenery offered fewer distinct visual cues.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
In Dyersville: For the movie “Field of Dreams,” starring Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones, a cornfield is turned into a ballfield for a story about baseball players in the afterlife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
The Philadelphia Phillies and Minnesota Twins will meet in the 2026 Field of Dreams game as Major League Baseball returns to the Iowa cornfield for the first time since 2022.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
Then a Navajo song, similar to those Nali sang in the cornfield, came on.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
As we rode into the sunrise between cornfields, we began encountering riders we would see often—mostly passing us—on road bikes, folding bikes, recumbents, fixies, e-bikes, tandems, clunkers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
The tall, shiny buildings which rise out of the cornfields on the Myanmar side of the Moei river are a sight so jarring you find yourself blinking to be sure you haven't imagined it.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2025
Born in rural Puebla, they had been laboring since they were 6, tending to goats and cows and then toiling in cornfields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024
“So they’ll build the practical cornfields and then they’ll stop at a certain point, but the visual will continue on as far as you can see.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
The steamy green jungles of the Amazon morphed into the barren cornfields of Bone Gap in the last weeks of winter.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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