field of study

1. 1.

   a branch of knowledge

   “in what discipline is his doctorate?”

   “teachers should be well trained in their subject”

   “anthropology is the study of human beings”

   Synonymsdisciplinesubjectsubject areasubject fieldfieldstudybailiwick

   Broaderknowledge domain

   Narroweroccultismcommunicationsmajorfrontiergenealogyallometrybiblioticsologysciencearchitecture

Questions about field of study

What does field of study mean?

field of study means "a branch of knowledge".

What is another word for field of study?

Close synonyms include discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field. 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 of study a common word?

field of study is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.