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

Pte Bailey, who had managed to escape as he was being transported to the camp by ducking into a cornfield, was home in Dunstable by December 1940.

From BBC

The real magic, however, is the giddiness sparkling around Terence Mann who starts as a lost soul and ends the film believing in magic again, simply by touching the edge of a cornfield.

From Salon

It’s not like we got a bunch of free land just lyin’ around here, so I mean, a lot of places it’s, ‘Oh, well, we’ll just go buy up this cornfield and we’ll build this thing.’

From Los Angeles Times

It used to be that you could put a black light at the edge of a cornfield at night and expect a bountiful harvest of moths the next morning.

From New York Times

“Everything that you see in the vista and the distance is Volume,” MacLachlan explains of the cornfield wedding scene in the premiere episode.

From Seattle Times