Home › Words › F › fieldfolkfieldfolkfieldfolk means labourers who work in the fields.EtymologyFrom field + folk.nounlabourers who work in the fields.e.g.“And soon anon came crossing The chamber in the gray Figures of jigging fieldfolk— Saviours of corn and hay” — 1922, Thomas Hardy, 'In the Small Hours' in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, Macmillan, page 181Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.fieldling 74% match — A dweller or inhabitant of the fields; countryman; farmer. vs fieldfolk →fieldwoman 74% match — A female agricultural labourer. vs fieldfolk →fieldworker 65% match — A person who does fieldwork. vs fieldfolk →folkland 65% match — Land held in villeinage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and taken back at his discretion. vs fieldfolk →landfolk 65% match — The inhabitants of a region, especially if native. vs fieldfolk →farmfield 65% match — A field used for farming purposes. vs fieldfolk →farmwork 65% match — The agricultural work done on a farm. vs fieldfolk →farmhand 64% match — Synonym of farmworker. vs fieldfolk →