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# fielder

«fielder» in Mova's school dictionary: **a player in cricket, baseball or rounders whose team is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a fielder, fielders)

### meaning for a pupil

A fielder is a player in cricket, baseball or rounders whose team is not batting, who tries to catch or stop the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In PE and sport lessons, fielders stand at positions round the field and work as a team to get batters out. Phrases: «a good fielder», «outfielder», «the fielder caught it».

### examples

- The fielder caught the ball and the batter was out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/#x1)
- In cricket there are eleven fielders including the bowler and the wicketkeeper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/#x2)
- The fielder threw the ball back to the bowler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/#x3)
- Our best fielder dived for the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/#x4)
- In baseball the outfielders stand far from the batter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/#x5)
- Fielders must watch the ball all the time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/#x6)
- Two fielders ran for the same catch and bumped into each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/#x7)

### note

Countable. Related: «field» (verb, to catch and return the ball), «fielding». The team batting has batters; the team in the field has fielders.

### In the corpora

- [Fielders close to the batter wear a helmet or stand further back, because hard shots hit them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/6/)
- [A cricket or hockey ball is hard enough to break bones, so close fielders and goalies wear helmets and pads.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fielder» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.