subject field

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 areafieldfield of studystudybailiwick

   Broaderknowledge domain

   Narroweroccultismcommunicationsmajorfrontiergenealogyallometrybiblioticsologysciencearchitecture

Questions about subject field

What does subject field mean?

subject field means "a branch of knowledge".

What is another word for subject field?

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

subject field 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.