Definition

Noun: 1. A field, especially a vast expanse of cultivated land: Refers to a large, open area of land, typically used for growing crops such as rice, wheat, or vegetables. It emphasizes the broad, expansive nature of the agricultural land. 2. A plain, a flat expanse of land: Can also describe a wide, flat geographical area, not necessarily cultivated.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Những cánh đồng lúa chín vàng trải dài đến tận chân trời. (The golden ripe rice fields stretch all the way to the horizon.)
  • Bọn trẻ thả diều trên cánh đồng rộng sau làng. (The children fly kites on the wide field behind the village.)
  • Mùa gặt đến, cánh đồng trở nên nhộn nhịp. (When the harvest season comes, the field becomes bustling.)

Advanced Usage

• "cánh đồng bất tận": an endless/limitless field.
  • Họ đi qua cánh đồng bất tận màu xanh. (They walked through the endless green field.)
• "cánh đồng hoang": a wild/uncultivated field; a moor.
  • Chỉ có cỏ dại mọc trên cánh đồng hoang ấy. (Only weeds grow on that wild field.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đồng ruộng (n): farmland, fields (a more general term for agricultural land).
  • Người nông dân làm việc vất vả trên đồng ruộng. (Farmers work hard on the farmland.)
• Thửa ruộng (n): a plot/patch of field (a smaller, specific parcel of land).
  • Ông ấy sở hữu ba thửa ruộng nhỏ. (He owns three small plots of field.)
• Cánh (n): This is a classifier often used with nouns denoting broad, flat, or wing-like expanses (e.g., cánh đồng - field, cánh rừng - forest expanse, cánh tay - arm).

Synonyms

• Đồng (n): field, plain (a shorter, more poetic form).
• Bãi (n): flat ground, often by a river or sea; meadow (e.g., bãi cỏ - lawn).
• Nông trại (n): farm (refers to the entire farming enterprise, including buildings and land).

Related Phrases

• Đi cày đồng: to go plowing the fields.
  • Sáng sớm, bố tôi đã đi cày đồng. (Early in the morning, my father went to plow the fields.)
• Ra đồng: to go to the field (to work).
  • Các bác nông dân ra đồng từ lúc tờ mờ sáng. (The farmers went to the field at dawn.)

Related Idioms

• "Chân ướt chân ráo" (literally: one foot wet, one foot dry): This idiom vividly describes someone who has just come in from working in a wet rice field. It means to be newly arrived or inexperienced in a new situation.
  • Anh ấy chân ướt chân ráo lên thành phố tìm việc. (He, fresh from the fields, came to the city to look for a job.)

noun

1. Field