paddock

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ˈpædək/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    A small enclosed field or pasture, especially one adjoining or near a house, used for grazing horses or other livestock.; An enclosure adjacent to a racetrack where horses are saddled and paraded before a race.; In Australian and New Zealand English, a large field or plot of land used for agricultural purposes, often for growing crops or grazing.; An area at a motor racing circuit where teams set up their garages, transporters, and hospitality units.; A small field or enclosed area of land, sometimes used as a garden or for keeping animals.
  2. verb
    To confine or keep animals in a paddock.
  3. noun
    A frog (archaic or dialectal usage, chiefly Scottish and Northern English).

🔗 Details

Word forms

countable Plural: paddocks 3rd sing.: paddocks Past: paddocked Past part.: paddocked Pres part.: paddocking

Collocations

racing paddockpaddock standpaddock areapaddock fenceturn out to paddock

Derivatives

paddocker

Synonyms

enclosurepencorralfieldmeadow

Commonly confused

paradox
EN: 'Paradox' is a seemingly contradictory statement; 'paddock' is an enclosed field for animals.

Spelling tips

EN: Remember 'paddock' has a double 'd' — not *padock*.

💬 Examples

  1. The horses were turned out into the paddock for the afternoon.

  2. The jockeys led their horses into the paddock for the pre-race inspection.

  3. The farmer drove his ute across the paddock to check on the cattle.

  4. The team principal walked through the paddock to discuss strategy with the engineers.

  5. They kept a few goats in the paddock behind the cottage.

  6. The farmer paddocked the sheep overnight to protect them from predators.

  7. The children caught a paddock by the stream.