Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or growing in uncultivated land or open fields.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to an open field; growing in a field or on open ground.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to an open field; growing in a field, or open ground.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to open
fields or uncultivated land.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of fields or open country
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This contained a liberal amount of sonorous words derived from the Latin, such as "campestral," "lapidescent,"
History of American Literature Reuben Post Halleck 1897
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Goya room in the basement there was a series of scenes from Spanish life, mostly frolic campestral things, which he did as patterns for tapestries and which came near being enough in their way: the way of that reality which is so far from the reality of Velasquez.
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In either case, the wonder of their beauty is the same; and whatever is primitive and sylvan or campestral in the reader's heart is touched by the spells thrown on the simple black lives in these enchanting tales.
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In either case, the wonder of their beauty is the same; and whatever is primitive and sylvan or campestral in the reader's heart is touched by the spells thrown on the simple black lives in these enchanting tales.
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There was not enough Goya abovestairs to satisfy us, but in the Goya room in the basement there was a series of scenes from Spanish life, mostly frolic campestral things, which he did as patterns for tapestries and which came near being enough in their way: the way of that reality which is so far from the reality of Velasquez.
Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878
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Engelmann and I have been noting the species truly indigenous here which, becoming ruderal or campestral, are increasing in the number of individuals instead of diminishing as the country becomes more settled and forests removed.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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