Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A field in which corn is grown.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Great Britain, a field in which corn of any kind is growing; a grain-field; in the United States, a field of Indian corn or maize.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a field planted with corn
- n. a field planted with corn
Etymologies
- From corn + field (Wiktionary)
Examples
“More unbelievable than the ghosts in the cornfield is the wife who not only understands her husband's crazy compulsions but actively supports them.”
“And skin growing darker each rotation, especially when they linger in what they call cornfield, where they rip the corn children from the green creatures that live there.”
“The milpa, or cornfield, is probably the most important element in the life of the rural Mexican farmer, apart from his family ... read more cuisines culture-customs”
Making merry in May: Mexico's National Cheese and Wine Festival
“Thered be ghosts in cornfield and old aeroplane hangars.”
A Conversation with Karen Russell author of St. Lucys Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
“They told me that down by the cornfield was a bunch of campers, and I said I'd go down and sell them some specs.”
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers
“To Mary Isabel as to me at her age, the cornfield was a vast mysterious forest, and the rainbow an overpowering miracle.”
“O, how carefully do the Devil and the world sow their tares in Christ's cornfield, which is the Church of God.”
“There are ten acres in the orchard," said Frank; "and the cornfield is the largest of all.”
“A path through a cornfield is a prosaic enough thing, but one who habitually holds converse with the unseen, and ever sees it shining through the seen, beholds all things 'apparelled in celestial light,' and finds deep truths in commonplace objects.”
“In place of these trained servants, he introduced a number of "cornfield" negroes into his house; among them a field hand named Moses, whom he called "Bull," and of whom he was soon heard saying: "Moses goes rooting about the house like a hog.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cornfield’.
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Open List: The World of Corn
Corn-related words and phrases. This versatile crop is so important to cultures and economies - from most basic indigenous foodstuff and animal feed to source of biopolymer and biofuel.
seed corn, field corn, flint corn, sweet corn, biofuel, biopolymer, corn starch, modified corn starch, cornstarch, cornflour, polylactic acid, citric acid and 390 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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Landscape
riparian, littoral, talus, fen, ambit, savanna, remnant prairie, shortgrass prairie, tallgrass prairie, marsh, swamp, marshy and 199 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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just checking
words I've had to look up on the job
metropolises, offstage, hip-hop, demistify, cherry-pick, incarnation, atonement, purse strings, cover-up, travelers, canvass, drug makers and 4 more...
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