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OUTFIELDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outfielder mean? 

OUTFIELDER (noun)
  The noun OUTFIELDER has 2 senses:

1. (baseball) a person who plays in the outfieldplay

2. a fielder in cricket who is stationed in the outfieldplay

  Familiarity information: OUTFIELDER used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OUTFIELDER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) a person who plays in the outfield

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("outfielder" is a kind of...):

fielder (a member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

softball; softball game (a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger and softer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outfielder"):

right fielder (the person who plays right field)

center fielder; centerfielder (the person who plays center field)

left fielder (the person who plays left field)

Derivation:

outfield (the area of a baseball playing field beyond the lines connecting the bases)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A fielder in cricket who is stationed in the outfield

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("outfielder" is a kind of...):

fielder; fieldsman (a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting)


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