Pronunciation Noun
battle (plural battles)
- A contest#Noun|contest, a struggle#Noun|struggle.
- the battle of life
- (military) A general#Adjective|general action, fight#Noun|fight, or encounter#Noun|encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat#Noun|combat, an engagement.
- (military, now, rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
- [a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum x”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book II (in Middle English), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786 ↗, leaf 43, verso; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034 ↗, lines 28–31, page 86 ↗:
- Thenne kyng Arthur made redy his hooſt in x batails and Nero was redy in the felde afore the caſtel Tarabil with a grete hooſt / & he had x batails with many mo peple than Arthur had [...]
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- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: Printed by W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, OCLC 1086746628 ↗, page 35 ↗:
- They ſay, that the King diuided his Armie into three Battailes; whereof the Vant-guard onely well ſtrengthened with wings, came to fight.
- (military, obsolete) The main#Adjective|main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear#Noun|rear; the battalia.
- French: lutte, bataille
- German: Schlacht, Kampf, Gefecht
- Italian: battaglia
- Portuguese: batalha
- Russian: би́тва
- Spanish: batalla, lucha
battle (battles, present participle battling; past and past participle battled)
- (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
- Scientists always battle over theories.
- She has been battling against cancer for years.
- (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
- She has been battling cancer for years.
battle
- (UK dialectal, chiefly, Scotland, Northern England, agriculture) Improving; nutritious; fattening.
- battle grass, battle pasture
- (UK dialectal, chiefly, Scotland, Northern England) Fertile; fruitful.
- battle soil, battle land
battle (battles, present participle battling; past and past participle battled)
- (transitive, UK dialectal, chiefly, Scotland, Northern England) To nourish; feed.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, chiefly, Scotland, Northern England) To render (for example soil) fertile or fruitful
Battle
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈbætəɫ/
- Surname from places in England that have been sites of a battle.
- A place name
- A town in East Sussex, United Kingdom; supposed site of the Battle of Hastings.
- A river in Saskatchewan, Canada
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