right field

1. 1.

   the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right

   Synonymsrightfieldright

   Broadertract

   Part ofoutfield
2. 2.

   the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate)

   Synonymsrightfield

   Broaderposition

   Part ofbaseball team

Questions about right field

What does right field mean?

right field means "the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for right field?

Close synonyms include rightfield, right, rightfield. 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 right field a common word?

right field 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.