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/ˈaʊtfˌild/ Listen

noun

Outfield n.

Arable land which has been or is being exhausted. See Infield, 1. (Scot.)

A field beyond, or separated from, the inclosed land about the homestead; an uninclosed or unexplored tract. Also used figuratively. "The great outfield of thought or fact."

(Baseball) The part of the baseball field beyond the diamond, or infield. It is occupied by the fielders, and usually considered as divided into left field, center field, and right field, named as viewed from home plate.

(Cricket) The part of the field farthest from the batsman.

verb

outfield v. t. (Baseball) To surpass in performing the tasks of fielding; as, both teams got ten hits, but the Red Sox outfielded the Yankees.

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Etymology of 'Outfield'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Outfield" Quotes from Famous Books

... improvements; but now that I have attended more I am disposed to think that those in authority know more about it than I do, and that such blemishes as it appears to have are probably inevitable. For one thing, I thought that the outfield had too great an advantage. For another, not unassociated with that objection, I thought that the home-run hit was not sufficiently rewarded above the quite ordinary hit—"bunch-hit," is it?—that brings in a man or men. ...

— Roving East and Roving West • E.V. Lucas

... Butch, inspired. "Beef, see the umpire and say we'll be ready as soon as we get Hicks into togs-show him the telegram, and explain our delay! I'll shift Monty from the outfield to Skeet's job at short, and put this diluted imitation of something human in the field, to do his worst. Come to the field-house, ...

— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

... warming up, the motley crew on the side lines in their amusing and alert play of high-low. Helen, fascinated by the players' movements, the accurate interception of stinging grounders, the graceful parabolas of long flies to the deep outfield, as well as by the spectacle of the orderly base and coaching lines laid out on the smooth, close-clipped greensward, watched as though in a new medium of sight. This was little like anything she ...

— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble