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fielder

fielder noun: a dog trained in pursuit of game in the field. Also the agent noun of field.

Noun (1)

fielder (plural fielders)

  1. A dog trained in pursuit of game in the field.
  2. A defensive player in the field.
  3. (obsolete) A fieldworker.

Noun (2)

fielder (plural fielders)

  1. A player of the fielding side, whose task is to gather the ball after the batsman has hit it, to catch the batsman out, or to prevent him from scoring.
    • His best fielder took the big wicket of the opponent team.
    Synonyms:
    fieldsman

Proper noun capitalized: Fielder

Fielder (plural Fielders)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

fielder is also the agent noun of field.

fielder meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

fielder in Hindi

फील्डर

fielder in Urdu

فیلڈر

fielder in Bengali

ফিল্ডার

fielder in Telugu

ఫీల్డర్
More languagesFewer languages
fielder in Malayalam
ഫീൽഡർ
fielder in Kannada
ಫೀಲ್ಡರ್
fielder in Punjabi
ਫ਼ੀਲਡਰ
fielder in Gujarati
ફિલ્ડર, ક્ષેત્રરક્ષક, ફીલ્ડર
fielder in Odia
ଫିଲ୍ଡର୍

Examples of fielder in a sentence

  • The captain signalled his best fielder from short leg to cover.
  • He refused to take a single as the ball was dropped by his opponent's best fielder.
  • The center fielder made an athletic play to snatch the ball from over the fence.

All 16 example sentences with fielder

Synonyms of fielder

Forms of fielder

Noun
pluralfielders
Proper noun
pluralFielders

Plural of fielder: fielders

Origin of fielder

From Middle English feldere (“one who works in the field; rustic”), from Old English feldeware (“field-dweller”), equivalent to field + -er. The baseball sense is from 1832.

From field (verb) + -er.

Words formed from fielder

Questions about fielder

What does fielder mean?
Fielder means a dog trained in pursuit of game in the field.
What is fielder in Hindi?
Fielder in Hindi is फील्डर. See Fielder meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is fielder?
Fielder can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of fielder?
The plural of fielder is fielders.

Words near fielder in the dictionary

  1. fielded off
  2. fielded out
  3. fielded up
  4. fielden
  5. Fieldens
  6. fielder
  7. fielder's choice
  8. fielder's choices
  9. fielders
  10. fielders' choices
  11. fieldes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fielder (page history and authors); Fielder (page history and authors); fielder (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fielder (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fielder (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fielder (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fielder (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fielder (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fielder (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fielder (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fielder (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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