field gun

1. 1.

   movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops)

   Synonymsfield artillery

   Broaderartillery

Questions about field gun

What does field gun mean?

field gun means "movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops)".

What is another word for field gun?

Close synonyms include field artillery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is field gun a common word?

field gun is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.