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killing fields

killing fields is the plural of killing field.

Meaning of killing field

Noun

killing field (plural killing fields)

  1. The field of fire of a machine gun or artillery.
    • The story of how the son of a top-ranking US spy died fighting for Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is an unlikely tale of how homegrown anger at the United States and online radicalisation led from a middle-class Virginia childhood to the killing fields of eastern Ukraine.2025 April 25, Andrew Roth, “Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. A place of mass slaughter, especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia.

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Proper noun capitalized: Killing Fields

the Killing Fields

  1. A number of sites in Cambodia where mass slaughter of some 2,000,000 people was carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s.

Noun capitalized: Killing fields

Killing fields

  1. (plural) plural of Killing field

Origin of killing fields

Coined by Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran in 1984.

Questions about killing fields

What does killing fields mean?
Killing fields means a number of sites in Cambodia where mass slaughter of some 2,000,000 people was carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s.
What is killing fields the plural of?
Killing fields is the plural of killing field.
What part of speech is killing fields?
Killing fields can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near killing fields in the dictionary

  1. killing bottle
  2. killing bottles
  3. killing box
  4. killing boxes
  5. killing field
  6. killing fields
  7. killing floor
  8. killing floors
  9. Killing form
  10. Killing forms
  11. killing frost

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