Definition of Field day

1. Noun. (military) a day for military exercises and display.

Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Generic synonyms: Day

2. Noun. A day for outdoor athletic competition.
Generic synonyms: Day

3. Noun. A time of unusual pleasure and success.
Generic synonyms: Period, Period Of Time, Time Period

4. Noun. A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering.
Exact synonyms: Outing, Picnic
Generic synonyms: Holiday, Vacation

Definition of Field day

1. Noun. (military) A parade day. ¹

2. Noun. A school day for athletic events; a sports day. ¹

3. Noun. A day of class taken away from school for a field trip. ¹

4. Noun. (idiomatic) A great time or a great deal to do. ¹

5. Noun. (idiomatic) A great time or a great deal to do, at somebody else's expense. ¹

6. Noun. (context: US Navy) Top-to-bottom all-hands cleaning. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Day

field-trip
field-vole
field artillery
field balm
field bean
field bindweed
field block
field block anaesthesia
field brome
field capacity
field chamomile
field chickweed
field coil
field corn
field cricket
field day
field days
field dependence-independence
field depth
field diaphragm
field dress
field effect
field effects
field emission
field emission display
field emission microscope
field emission microscopes
field emission microscopy
field emission tube
field event

Literary usage of Field day

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1903)
"THE UNDERGRADUATES TECHNOLOGY field day, NOV. ... attendance of some three thousand spectators, Technology's second field day was a most successful affair. ..."

2. The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society by American-Irish Historical Society (1914)
"ANNUAL field day OF THE AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. SARATOGA, JULY 26, 1913. Announcement of the annual field day of the Society was made by the ..."

3. Collections of the Maine Historical Society by Maine Historical Society (1899)
"field day EXCURSION. THE Annual field day Excursion was taken September 6, 1899, by railroad to Pine Point, thence by carriages to the site of the ancient ..."

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