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    PLAYING AREA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A piece of land prepared for playing a gameplay

    Example:

    the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field

    Synonyms:

    athletic field; field; playing area; playing field

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Hypernyms ("playing area" is a kind of...):

    parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)

    Meronyms (parts of "playing area"):

    midfield ((sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse))

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "playing area"):

    arena; scene of action (a playing field where sports events take place)

    ball field; baseball field; diamond (the baseball playing field)

    court (a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played)

    football field; gridiron (the playing field on which football is played)

    palaestra; palestra (a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes)

    bowling green (a field of closely mowed turf for playing bowls)

    pitch; soccer field (a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer)

    Holonyms ("playing area" is a part of...):

    arena; bowl; sports stadium; stadium (a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments)

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