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Finnish
Etymology
Borrowing from Sami, ultimately from Proto-Samic *kientē.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
kenttä
- field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)
- field (place where a battle is fought)
- Synonym: tanner
- (military, in compounds) field, modifier that the object is mobile and meant for use in the battlefield
- kenttäsairaala ― field hospital
- (sports) A limited area where a game is played, a playing field (often combined with a modifier that defines the kind of playing field).
- (soccer) field, pitch
- (baseball, pesäpallo, American football) field
- (ice hockey) rink
- Synonym: kaukalo
- (basketball, tennis) court
- (golf) course
- field (area reserved for playing a game)
- field (realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory)
- field (section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data)
- (figuratively) Synonym of ala (“field (domain of study, knowledge, practice)”)
- (figuratively) field, scope, domain
- (informal) Ellipsis of lentokenttä (“airport, airfield”).
- (colloquial) signal strength, coverage (such as of a mobile phone)
- (geology) field (region containing a particular mineral)
- (physics) field (physical phenomenon that pervades a region)
- (heraldry, vexillology) field (background of the shield or flag)
- (computing, object-oriented programming, databases) field (area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value; component of a database)
- (television, video) Synonym of puolikuva (“field (in video)”)
- (video games) level, stage
- Synonym: taso
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See also
- pelto (“field (for growing crops)”)
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