TAKE THE FIELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take the field mean? 

• TAKE THE FIELD (verb)
  The verb TAKE THE FIELD has 2 senses:

1. go on a campaign; go off to war

2. go on the playing field, of a football team

  Familiarity information: TAKE THE FIELD used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE THE FIELD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go on a campaign; go off to war

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

campaign; take the field

"Take the field" entails doing...:

war (make or wage war)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take the field"):

crusade (go on a crusade; fight a holy war)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Go on the playing field, of a football team

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "take the field" is one way to...):

come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into (to come or go into)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

I told him that my old nurse would be delighted to assist him, and that we would all three take the field together, but on one condition.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is so rumored in the guard-room, and that Sir Nigel will take the field once more.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

'Charge, Chester, charge!' is the motto for that table, but do your duty like men, and you'll get your money's worth of art in every sense of the word, said the irrepressible Jo, as the devoted phalanx prepared to take the field.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)