Meanings
cornfield1
plural cornfields
- A field of corn (maize).
1 more example
"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
Cornfield2
- A surname.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 麥田 /麦田
- 麥田 /麦田 (màitián)a field of corn
Esperanto maizkampo, grenkampo
- maizkampoa field of corn
- grenkampoa field of corn
Finnish viljapelto, maissipelto
- viljapeltoa field of corn
- maissipeltoa field of corn
French champ de blé
- champ de bléa field of corn
German Maisfeld
- Maisfelda field of corn
Greek αραβοσιτώνας
- αραβοσιτώνας (aravositónas)a field of corn
Japanese トウモロコシ畑
- トウモロコシ畑 (tōmorokoshi-batake)a field of corn
Latin seges
- segesa field of corn
Latvian druva
- druvaa field of corn
Polish niwa, pole uprawne
- niwaa field of corn
- pole uprawnea field of corn
Portuguese milharal (of maize), seara
- milharal (of maize)a field of corn
- searaa field of corn
Russian кукуру́зное по́ле
- кукуру́зное по́ле (kukurúznoje póle)a field of corn
Spanish milpa, maizal
- milpaa field of corn
- maizala field of corn
- miesesa field of corn
Swedish majsfält
- majsfälta field of corn
Cite this entry
cornfield. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cornfield
“cornfield.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cornfield. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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