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Definition of Football field
1. Noun. The playing field on which football is played.
Group relationships: Football Stadium
Generic synonyms: Athletic Field, Field, Playing Area, Playing Field
Definition of Football field
1. Noun. (American football) A playing field on which the game of football is played. Also used as an informal measurement of size; see illustration. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Football Field
Literary usage of Football field
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. City Planning: A Series of Papers Presenting the Essential Elements of a by John Nolen (1916)
"It also may be played on a regular football field. ... The natural place for a
running track is around the football field, which will allow a standard ..."
2. Football: The Rugby Union Game by Francis Marshall (1892)
"His bald heart was a familiar object in the football field, and the writer can
remember overhearing a spectator remark: " How well that old gentleman does ..."
3. Athletes All: Training, Organization, and Play by Walter Camp (1919)
"The game can be played on a regulation football-field marked out and with or ...
300 feet—same as the regulation football-field without the end zones. ..."
4. The Craven and North-west Yorkshire Highlands by Harry Speight (1892)
"... registers—Interesting Terrier—Old Free School—football field. circumambulations
have brought us back once more to Settle, whence our survey began. ..."
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