Definition of Take the field

1. Verb. Go on a campaign; go off to war.

Exact synonyms: Campaign
Entails: War
Specialized synonyms: Crusade
Derivative terms: Campaign

2. Verb. Go on the playing field, of a football team.

Definition of Take the field

1. Verb. (idiomatic) to go out onto the playing field ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Take The Field

take ten
take that
take the Fifth
take the Fifth Amendment
take the Michael
take the air
take the biscuit
take the bull by the horns
take the cake
take the con
take the count
take the cross
take the cure
take the fall
take the field (current term)
take the fifth
take the floor
take the game to
take the heat
take the hint
take the lead
take the liberty
take the mick
take the mickey
take the offensive
take the pee
take the pledge
take the plunge

Literary usage of Take the field

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

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The martial impatience of Julian urged him to take the field in the beginning of the spring, and he dismissed, with contempt and reproach, the senate of ..."

2. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1869)
"LICINIUS AND PERSEUS take the field. THE LATTER HAS AT FIRST CONSIDERABLY THE ADVANTAGE. ... take the Field ..."

3. The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"Parliament dissolved—§ XIX; The French and allies take the field in Flanders—§ XX. Prince of Orange elected stadtholder, captain-general, and admiral of the ..."

4. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"quick-witted Irish woman might succeed in baffling the investigations of God-fearing veterans.1 Early in May Ireton was prepared to take the field with ..."

5. The Documentary History of the State of New-York: Arranged Under Direction by New York (State). Secretary's Office (1851)
"... of the enemy up the River has prevented their meeting for the present and obliged me to take the field with the Militia to oppose the Common Enemy. ..."

6. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"... of God-fearing veterans.1 pares to but he himself—unlike most other mediocre com- take the . field. manders—having learnt to distrust his own powers, ..."

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