The meaning group to which a lexeme belongs; a group of interrelated vocabulary items. For example, the terms 'head', 'arm' and 'foot' all belong to the semantic field 'parts of the body.'
Words that are 'in the same semantic field' are related to each other in terms of their meaning: e.g. fish / catch / gut / river / slimy / green umbrella.
A set of words connected in meaning (cf. Associative Field). The various terms used relating to movies (e.g., cinema, theater, film, reel, soundtrack, etc.) form a semantic field.