Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

orefield

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ore-field
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Land from which ore is mined.

name

An unincorporated community in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Example Sentences

"The balance is home-produced and is railborne from inland orefields. The home orefields serving South Wales are situated at Banbury and at Irthlingborough, on the ex-L.N.W.R. Northampton-Peterborough branch."
"The Midlands Basin orefield in Ireland contains several large zinc-lead(-barium) ore deposits formed from moderate temperature fluids generated by deep crustal circulation of seawater-derived brines during continental rifting ( 15, 16 )."

Etymology

From ore + field.

Inflected Forms

orefields (plural)

Questions

What does orefield mean?: Land from which ore is mined.
Where does orefield come from?: From ore + field.

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