CORNFIELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cornfield mean? 

• CORNFIELD (noun)
  The noun CORNFIELD has 1 sense:

1. a field planted with corn

  Familiarity information: CORNFIELD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORNFIELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A field planted with corn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

corn field; cornfield

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

grain field; grainfield (a field where grain is grown)

 Context examples 

The farmer carried me under his arm to the cornfield, and set me up on a tall stick, where you found me.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

To pierce the great mountains of the south, to fight the tamers of the fiery Moors, to follow the greatest captain of the age, to find sunny cornfields and vineyards, when the marches of Picardy and Normandy were as rare and bleak as the Jedburgh forests—here was a golden prospect for a race of warriors.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All the valley at my right hand was full of pasture- fields, and cornfields, and wood; and a glittering stream ran zig-zag through the varied shades of green, the mellowing grain, the sombre woodland, the clear and sunny lea.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She lifted me from the pole in the cornfield and brought me to the Emerald City.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then, I was stuck on a pole in a cornfield, where I could make-believe scare the crows, at any rate.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"I might have passed my whole life in the farmer's cornfield."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

There was a great cornfield beyond the fence, and not far away she saw a Scarecrow, placed high on a pole to keep the birds from the ripe corn.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Many crows and other birds flew into the cornfield, but as soon as they saw me they flew away again, thinking I was a Munchkin; and this pleased me and made me feel that I was quite an important person.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

When I remember that a short time ago I was up on a pole in a farmer's cornfield, and that now I am the ruler of this beautiful City, I am quite satisfied with my lot.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)