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Definition of Field house

1. Noun. A building for indoor sports.

2. Noun. An athletic facility where athletes prepare for sport.

Definition of Field house

1. Noun. (North America) A large building for indoor sports, particularly at colleges. ¹

2. Noun. (North America) A building for equipment storage and changing rooms (locker rooms) by an outdoor sports field. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Field House

field goal field goals field grade field gradient field guide field gun field hand field hands field hockey field hockey ball

field horsetail field horsetails field hospital field hospitals field house (current term) field hut field identification field intensity field ion microscope field judge

field lens field line field lines field lupine field magnet field maple field marigold field marshal field marshals

Literary usage of Field house

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

1. State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the End of the Century by Edward Field (1902)
"... in the early days of the Colony, was a RUINS OF THE THOMAS field house AT FIELD'S POINT. ... field house ..."

2. Playground Technique and Playcraft by Arthur Leland, Lorna Highbee Leland (1909)
"THE field house Sherman Park 12. AUDITORIUM AND CLUB ROOMS. Sometimes on the ground floor, but more often on the second floor, is a large auditorium with ..."

3. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"A women's field house requires individual dressing stalls, shower stalls, etc. The usual water sports at a university are swimming, canoe paddling, ..."

4. Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in America, Whose by Frederick Clifton Pierce (1901)
"The fact of there being a field house lane in 1440 implies the existence at ... time of a field house, while this last entry shows that there were at the ..."

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