Wheatfields

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Large areas of land planted with wheat, often swaying golden under the sun before harvest
2. Expanses of cultivated ground where cereal grain is grown and gathered at season's end
3. Plots of farmland covered with growing wheat plants, forming broad golden stretches across the countryside

Etymology: "Wheatfields" is simply the plural of "wheatfield," a compound built from two plain English words: "wheat" and "field." Both parts are Old English in origin, so the word is a native English formation rather than a borrowing, and it needs no foreign root to explain it. "Wheat" goes back to the Old English "hwǽte," while "field" comes from the Old English "feld," meaning an open expanse of land, not necessarily one under cultivation. Joining them produced a straightforward descriptive term for a field planted with that grain, the kind of transparent compound English has always favoured for everyday things.

Synonyms: cornfields, grainfields