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fields

noun US /fiːldz/

United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)

How often you will meet it

Rank 1,627 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 11,173 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.

What it means

noun

  1. United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946) also: W. C. Fields, William Claude Dukenfield

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

fields in real books

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  • It was a slope of gap-hedged fields possessed to their centres by clumps of brambles.

    Actions and reactions · Rudyard Kipling · Chapter 1

  • They climbed the dyke and crossed the fields, and walked along the road by the canal.

    The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1

  • Here and there a farmhouse stood far back among the fields, mute and cold as a grave-stone.

    Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1

  • They hurry from the boat as if 'twere Charon's, and they were about stepping into the fields of Elysium!

    Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1

  • With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · Chapter 1

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