...a related set of words grouped semantically (by meaning) that refers to a specific subject
What is a semantic field? studymind.co.uk
A semantic field, also known as a lexical field or semantic domain, refers to a group of words or expressions that are related in meaning. These words or expressions typically share a common theme or topic and are used to express different aspects or nuances of that theme or topic.
semantic field OED
Semantic Fields and Semantic Change Adrienne Lehrer and Paul Lanan Battan (pdf)
...A semantic field is a set of lexemes which cover a certain conceptual domain and which bear certain specifiable relations to one another. An example of a simple semantic field would be the conceptual domain of cooking, which in English is divided up into the lexemes boil, bake, fry, roast, etc. A basic premise of semantic field theory is that to understand lexical meaning it is necessary to look at sets of semantically related words- -not simply at each word in isolation.
Indo-European Lexicon: PIE Etymon and IE Reflexes University of Texas Linguistics Research Center
Below we display: a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) etymon adapted from Pokorny, with our own English gloss; our Semantic Field assignment(s) for the etymon, linked to information about the field(s); an optional Comment; and Reflexes (derived words) in various Indo-European languages, organized by family/group in west-to-east order where Germanic is split into West/North/East families and English, our language of primary emphasis, is artificially separated from West Germanic.
Indo-European Lexicon: Pokorny Master PIE Etyma University of Texas Linguistics Research Center
...Entry head-words are listed, with their page numbers and cross-references to other entries (following Pokorny) plus our own English glosses
Lexical Fields from The Linguistic Structure of Modern English workbook
Related to the concept of hyponymy, but more loosely defined, is the notion of a lexical field. A lexical field denotes a segment of reality symbolized by a set of related words. The words in a semantic field share a common semantic property. Most often, fields are defined by subject matter, such as body parts, landforms, diseases, colors, foods, or kinship relations. Internally, these may be organized as a hierarchy (e.g., royalty, military ranks), as a meronymy (e.g., body parts), as a sequence (e.g., numbers), or or as a cycle (e.g., days of the week, months of the year), as well as with no discernible order....The words which are part of a lexical field enter into sense or meaning relationships with one another. Each word delimits the meaning of the next word in the field and is delimited by it; that is, it marks off an area or range within the semantic domain.
Semantic networks / Semantic fields / Lexical fields / Lexical sets Sue Swift
...semantic field and lexical field are sometimes used with different meanings — semantic field referring to abstract mental concepts and lexical field referring to the words that expressed those concepts. McCarthy (1990:21) states : ...lexical fields are the realization (or flesh and bones, as it were) of the abstract notion of semantic fields...... Many writers avoid the terms completely, talking only about "lexical relationships". My own preference is that :
Semantic network = abstract psychological conceptsBut — yer pays your money and yer takes your choice...
Semantic field = lexical field = general associations between words, as in the gardening example above.
Lexical set = specific relationships such as hyponomy, meronymy, "word families" etc etc. (See the links above)
What is the difference between semantic and lexical field? enotes.com
...Within the study of linguistics, semantics examines the meaning of words and sentences. A semantic field is thus the range of words that is employed to discuss some common topic. For example, the semantic field for hiking might include words like backpack, incline, terrain, wildlife, navigate, GPS, and boots. These words are not synonymous, but instead refer to the range of concepts that could be employed in a discussion of hiking....A lexeme is often thought of as a word in its most basic form. A lexical field is then the range of words which could apply in a given position of a sentence, each with a slightly different connotation
Lexical field of a word stackexchange.com
...Based on research in historical semantics, Jost Trier (1931) introduced the term lexical field (or semantic field) that he defined as a set of semantically related words whose meanings delimit each other. Thus, the meaning of a word can only be fully determined in terms of contrasts in which it stands with other words in the field. From a diachronic perspective, this means that any change in the meaning of one word affects the meaning of other words to which it is related. According to Trier, the members of a field cover a whole conceptual or objective domain without any gaps or overlaps, i.e. the boundaries of a lexical field can be clearly delimited. Criticism of this conception of lexical fields brought about differentiations and modifications of lexical field theory and led in the development of componential analysis....meronyms may be seen as the mapping of the meaning of Word onto one or more other words, the set of meronyms. To find meronyms we have to find these mappings, subtle, complicated, obscure as they might be.
Meronymy and holonymy Wikipedia
...a semantic relation between a meronym denoting a part and a holonym denoting a whole. In simpler terms, a meronym is in a part-of relationship with its holonym. For example, finger is a meronym of hand, which is its holonym. Similarly, engine is a meronym of car, which is its holonym. Fellow meronyms (naming the various fellow parts of any particular whole) are called comeronyms (for example, leaves, branches, trunk, and roots are comeronyms under the holonym of tree).
BUT I invoke Dumpty's Option for 'semantic field', and use the term as applying to the nuances or shades of meaning that attend any single lexeme, and to the out-bound linkages to other lexemes. Thus, I consider each of MYKeywords as potentially multivalent and complex in Meaning, and as clustered with others of MYKeywords...
Thus, at least these from the MYKeywords list form a cluster around the semantic space of 'world model':Culture
Ecology
Imagination
infrastructure
landscape
map
paradigm
Pattern
process
synoptic
Systems
trajectory