cornfield
nounUK /ˈkɔːnfiːld/ · US /ˈkɔɹnˌfild/
Etymology From corn + field.
1
A field of corn: maize, wheat, or other cereal crop.
2
A field of corn (maize).
- "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."1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
- Derived terms
- cornfield meet
- Related terms
- corncob, cornhusk, cornhusker, cornhusking, cornrow, cornstalk