homefield

English

Alternative forms

  • home field
  • home-field

Etymology

From home +‎ field.

Noun

homefield (plural homefields)

  1. (UK, dated) A field adjacent to its owner's home.
    • 1861, Anthony Trollope, chapter 2, in Framley Parsonage, London: Smith, Elder & Co.:
      The high road went winding about through the Framley paddocks, shrubberies, and wood-skirted home fields, for a mile and a half[.]

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