FIELD DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field day mean? 

• FIELD DAY (noun)
  The noun FIELD DAY has 4 senses:

1. (military) a day for military exercises and display

2. a day for outdoor athletic competition

3. a time of unusual pleasure and success

4. a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering

  Familiarity information: FIELD DAY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(military) a day for military exercises and display

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("field day" is a kind of...):

day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A day for outdoor athletic competition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("field day" is a kind of...):

day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A time of unusual pleasure and success

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("field day" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

field day; outing; picnic

Hypernyms ("field day" is a kind of...):

holiday; vacation (leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure)

 Context examples 

After it rains, grazing animals have a field day.

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