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field days

field days is the plural of field day.

Meaning of field day

Noun

field day (plural field days)

  1. A day for maneuvers and tactical exercises in the field (across the landscape).
    • This morning I got up, with great difficulty, at 6.30, and at 7.45 we started out for a Brigade Field Day. Did an attack from 10.30 to 2.30, but it wasn't a strenuous one for me as I was told to "become a casualty" soon after the 3000 yard assault began ….1937, Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress, London: Faber, page 621 (in The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston )
  2. (US) A school day for athletic events.
    Synonyms:
    sports day
  3. A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.
  4. (idiomatic) A great time or a great deal to do; a period of bustling activity.
    • They went to the park and had a field day playing on the swings.
  5. (idiomatic) A great time or a great deal to do, at somebody else's expense.
    • The reporters will have a field day with a comment like that.
  6. (Navy, US, specifically, US Coast Guard and US Marine Corps) A day on which there is top-to-bottom all-hands cleaning.

Questions about field days

What is field days the plural of?
Field days is the plural of field day.

Words near field days in the dictionary

  1. field cornets
  2. field corns
  3. field cricket
  4. field crickets
  5. field day
  6. field days
  7. field dress
  8. field dressed
  9. field dresses
  10. field dressing
  11. field dressings

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