Meaning

5 senses
  1. The region of the field between the infield and the outer fence.

    He hit a long fly ball to the outfield in the gap to left.

  2. The region of the field roughly outside of the infield or the wicket-keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.

  3. The area outside a racetrack or running track.

  4. (Scotland)Arable land continually cropped without being manured.

  5. (Scotland)Any open field at a distance from the farmsteading.

More definitions
  • the area of a baseball playing field beyond the lines connecting the bases

Examples

4 sentences
  1. I play outfield.

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  2. He plays in the outfield today.

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  3. Tom hit the ball to the outfield.

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  4. The ball bounced off the bat and flew into the outfield.

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Translations

1 languages

Forms

plural: outfields
Singularoutfield
Pluraloutfields

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
area of a baseball field:backfield

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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