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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
downfield is an adjective and adverb meaning "toward or in the defending team's end of the playing field". It carries 2 recorded senses.
toward or in the defending team's end of the playing field
“he threw to a downfield receiver”
sport
toward or in the defending team's end of the playing field
“he caught the ball and ran downfield 15 yards”
sport
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for downfield come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.