word-field
Linguistics
noun
A group of lexical items (sometimes specifically of morphologically simple ones) seen as associated in meaning because occurring in similar contexts.
Origin
1930s. After German Wortfeld (J. Trier, 1931).
- make a hames of
- make a hash of
- make-ahead
- make a hit
- make a hole in
- make a Horlicks of
- make a House
- make a joke of
- make a killing
- make allowance(s) for
- make a man out of someone
- make a market
- make a match
- make a meal of
- make a mess
- make a mess of
- make a mockery of
- make (a) mock of
- make a monkey of (or out of) someone
- make a mountain out of a molehill
- make a move
- make a move on (or put the moves on)
- make a muck of
- make a name for oneself
- make an ass of oneself