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# paddock

«paddock» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small field where horses or other animals are kept…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a paddock, paddocks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Ireland) A paddock is a small field where horses or other animals are kept, often near a house or stable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddock/#m1)

2) (Australia, NZ) A paddock is any field on a farm, even a very big one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddock/#m2)

3) At a racecourse or motor race, the paddock is the area where horses or cars are kept and shown before a race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddock/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories set on farms in Australia and NZ, "paddock" is the everyday word for a field. In maths, paddocks have perimeters (fencing) and areas (grass). Phrases: back paddock, horse paddock, in the paddock.

### examples

- The horses are grazing in the paddock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddock/#x1)
- We moved the sheep to the back paddock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddock/#x2)
- The paddock is 40 metres long and 30 metres wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddock/#x3)
- How much fencing goes around the paddock? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddock/#x4)
- On the farm in New Zealand, every field is a paddock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddock/#x5)
- The racehorses walked round the paddock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddock/#x6)
- Close the paddock gate so the pony doesn't escape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddock/#x7)
- The cows are in the paddock by the creek. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddock/#x8)

### note

Countable. In the USA people say "pasture" or "corral". Maths: perimeter of a paddock = fence length (add all sides); area = length × width for a rectangle.

### In the corpora

- ["A few kangaroos loose in the top paddock" (Australia) means stupid or a bit mad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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