Definition of Field house

1. Noun. A building for indoor sports.

Exact synonyms: Sports Arena
Generic synonyms: House

2. Noun. An athletic facility where athletes prepare for sport.
Generic synonyms: Athletic Facility
Group relationships: Arena, Bowl, Sports Stadium, Stadium

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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