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Definitions: Afield |
AfieldAdverb1. Far away from home or one's usual surroundings; "looking afield for new lands to conquer"- R.A.Hall. 2. In or into a field (especially a field of battle); "the armies were afield, challenging the enemy's advance"; "unlawful to carry hunting rifles afield until the season opens". 3. Off the subject; beyond the point at issue; "such digressions can lead us too far afield". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "afield" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Afield \A*field"\, adverb. [Prefix a- field.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: AfieldSynonym: abroad (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Presence | Adverb: here, there, where, everywhere, aboard, on board, at home, afield; here there and everywhere; (space); in presence of, before; under the eyes of, under the nose of; in the face of; in propria persona. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Afield |
| English words defined with "afield": abroad ♦ drift. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "afield": reduction of levels. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Afield.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Djibouti | Connections further afield can be made through Addis Ababa, Sanaa, or Paris. (references) |
Vietnam | It has opened subsequent hypermarts in Binh Chanh and Cholon Districts of HCMC and announced plans for several more stores (including outlets as far afield as Hanoi and Can Tho) over the next few years. (references) | |
Israel | During the 1990s, progress in the Middle East peace process, beginning with the Madrid Conference of 1991, helped to erode Israel's economic isolation from its neighbors and opened up new markets to Israeli exporters farther afield. (references) | |
Human Rights | Sierra Leone | The number of roadblocks decreased during the year as UNAMSIL forces were deployed farther afield. (references) |
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| "Afield" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Afield" is used about 357 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 357 | 15,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "afield": far afield ♦ go far afield ♦ quite afield. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sports afield | 38 |
dog afield | 13 |
afield kentucky | 9 |
afield | 8 |
afield archer | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "afield"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tutje (aside, away, beyond, forth, hence, onward, outward), larg (afar, apart, away, clear, distant, far, far away, far off, off, wide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | بعيد (away, distant, far, out of the way, remote, soon after, unlikely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | настрана (aloof, apart, aside, back, by, clear, edgewise, stage whisper), далеч от дома, далеч (afar, away, deep, distantly, far, far and away, far away, wide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | na poli, daleko (away, by a long shot, far, off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | درصحرا, دردشت . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | draußen (abroad, out, out there, outdoor, outdoors, outside). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σε απόσταση (afar, aloof), μακράν (abroad, aloof, avaunt, away, by far), εισ τουσ αγρούσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szabadban (alfresco, in the clear, in the open, in the open air, in the open field, out of doors, outdoors, outside), mezõn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menyimpang (deviate, discursive, diverge, irrelevant), menyeleweng (deviate, digress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | in campo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | 'sy vagher. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | afielday no campo, longe (afar, away, far, far and away, faraway, off, outlying, way), fora de casa (abroad, out, out of doors, outdoor, outdoors, out-of-door). (various references) rãtãcit (haggard, stray, wandering, wild), plecat de acasã (away), pe un drum greşit, la câmp. (various references) в поле, на войне. (various references) u polju, na polju. (various references) al campo. (various references) borta (absent, aloof, away, gone, missing, out, over, with the wind). (various references) yolunu şaşırmış, uzağa (apart, away, clear, far, far afield, insofar, off, to a distance), kırlara, kırda, evden uzak. (various references) удалину, удалині (aloof, distantly), у полі, на полі, далеко (a long way, afar, away, far, far away, far out, way, wide, widely). (various references) ở ngo i ruộng; ra đ"ng, ở ngo i đ"ng. (various references) ymhell (afar, far, far afield). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "afield" (pronounced ufē"ld) |
| 4 | -f ē" l d | field. |
| 3 | -ē" l d | appealed, concealed, congealed, healed, heeled, peeled, reeled, repealed, resealed, revealed, sealed, shield, unconcealed, unsealed, wheeled, wield, yield. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: failed. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-i-l" | |
-1 letter: ailed, felid, field, filed, flied, ideal. | |
-2 letters: aide, alef, alif, dale, deaf, deal, defi, deil, delf, deli, dial, diel, fade, fail, feal, fila, file, flea, fled, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lead, leaf, lied, lief, life. | |
-3 letters: aid, ail, ale, dal, del, die, eld, elf, fad, fed, fid, fie, fil, lad, lea, led, lei, lid, lie. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ai, al, de, ed, ef, el, fa, id, if, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-i-l" | |
+1 letter: flailed. | |
+2 letters: airfield, canfield, dayflies, deadlift, dealfish, defilade, deifical, enfilade, fairlead, filiated, finagled, findable, finialed, foliaged, foliated, gadflies, hayfield, inflamed, inflated, salified. | |
+3 letters: afflicted, airfields, airlifted, amplified, backfield, calcified, canfields, clarified, coalfield, coalified, deadlifts, decalcify, defiantly, defiladed, defilades, definable, definably, deflating, deflation, defleaing, defoliant, defoliate, dwarflike, enfiladed, enfilades, fairleads, falsified, fascicled, feudalism, feudalist, feudality, feudalize, fieldfare, filagreed, filtrated, finalised, finalized, flatlined, floriated, focalised, focalized, fusillade, hayfields, lifeguard, playfield, qualified, sandflies, shadflies, zinfandel. | |
+4 letters: affiliated, alderflies, alkalified, backfields, backfilled, candlefish, classified, coalfields, damselfish, deadlifted, dealfishes, declassify, defaulting, defeasible, defilading, deflations, defoliants, defoliated, defoliates, defoliator, enfilading, exfoliated, facelifted, fairleader, federalism, federalist, federalize, feudalisms, feudalists, feudalized, feudalizes, fiddleback, fiddlehead, fieldfares, fireplaced, firewalled, fishtailed, fluoridate, foreladies, formalised, formalized, formidable, fulminated, fusillades, grainfield, ladyfinger, ladyfishes, lapidified, lapidifies, lifeguards, lightfaced, manifolded, modifiable, paddlefish, playfields, reinflated, semifeudal, unfindable, uninflated, zinfandels. | |
+5 letters: battlefield, classifieds, damselflies, deadlifting, deafeningly, decalcified, decalcifies, defalcating, defalcation, deferential, defloration, defoliating, defoliation, defoliators, deformalize, disgraceful, distasteful, dragonflies, facilitated, fairleaders, faultfinder, federalisms, federalists, federalized, federalizes, feldspathic, felicitated, feudalistic, feudalities, feudalizing, fibrillated, fiddlebacks, fiddleheads, flimflammed, fluoridated, fluoridates, fluorinated, foolhardier, freeloading, grainfields, indefinable, indefinably, infibulated, infiltrated, insufflated, ladyfingers, lifeguarded, qualifiedly, requalified, sulfonamide, syllabified, unamplified, uncalcified, unclarified, undefinable, unqualified. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 66 69 65 6C 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ..-. .. . .-.. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100110 01101001 01100101 01101100 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A f i e l d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0066 0069 0065 006C 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357275717870 |
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