FIELDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fielding mean? 

• FIELDING (noun)
  The noun FIELDING has 2 senses:

1. (baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field

2. English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754)

  Familiarity information: FIELDING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("fielding" is a kind of...):

handling; manipulation (the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Derivation:

field (play as a fielder)

field (catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fielding; Henry Fielding

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 Context examples 

They say he is like Fielding: they talk of his wit, humour, comic powers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He resembles Fielding as an eagle does a vulture: Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)