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# fielder

noun (a fielder, fielders)

«fielder» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/#m1)

### 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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/#x2)
- The fielder threw the ball back to the bowler. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/#x3)
- Our best fielder dived for the ball. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/#x4)
- In baseball the outfielders stand far from the batter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/#x5)
- Fielders must watch the ball all the time. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fielder» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fielder/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fielder» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fielder.html) on Mova free.