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afield
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial afield has 3 senses
- afield(r = adv.all) abroad - far away from home or one's usual surroundings; "looking afield for new lands to conquer"
- afield(r = adv.all) Array - in or into a field (especially a field of battle); "the armies were afield, challenging the enemy's advance"; "unlawful to carry hunting rifles afield until the season opens"
- afield(r = adv.all) Array - off the subject; beyond the point at issue; "such digressions can lead us too far afield"
CIDE DICTIONARY
afield, adv. [Pref. a- + field.].
- To, in, or on the field. Milton. [1913 Webster]"How jocund did they drive their team afield!" [1913 Webster]
- Out of the way; astray. [1913 Webster]"Why should he wander afield at the age of fifty-five!" [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
afield, adv.
1 away from home; to or at a distance ( esp. far afield).
2 in the field.
1 away from home; to or at a distance ( esp. far afield).
2 in the field.
Etymology
OE (as A(2), FIELD)
ROGET THESAURUS
afield
Presence
N presence, occupancy, occupation, attendance, whereness, permeation, pervasion, diffusion, ubiety, ubiquity, ubiquitariness, omnipresence, bystander, present, occupying, inhabiting, moored, resiant, resident, residentiary, domiciled, ubiquitous, ubiquitary, omnipresent, universally present, peopled, populous, full of people, inhabited, here, there, where, everywhere, aboard, on board, at home, afield, here there and everywhere, in presence of, before, under the eyes of, under the nose of, in the face of, in propria persona, on the spot, in person, in the flesh, nusquam est qui ubique est.
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