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PLAYING AREA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A piece of land prepared for playing a game
Example:
the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
Synonyms:
athletic field; field; playing area; playing field
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("playing area" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Meronyms (parts of "playing area"):
midfield ((sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "playing area"):
arena; scene of action (a playing field where sports events take place)
ball field; baseball field; diamond (the baseball playing field)
court (a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played)
football field; gridiron (the playing field on which football is played)
palaestra; palestra (a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes)
bowling green (a field of closely mowed turf for playing bowls)
pitch; soccer field (a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer)
Holonyms ("playing area" is a part of...):
arena; bowl; sports stadium; stadium (a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments)
