battlefield
Noun
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Noun
battlefield (plural battlefields)
- The area where a land battle is or was fought, which is not necessarily a field.
- 1886 The night of the 16th of May found McPherson's command bivouacked from two to six miles west of the battlefield, along the line of the road to Vicksburg — Ulysses S. Grant, Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w Chapter 35.]
- field of battle
- battleground
- French: champ de bataille
- German: Schlachtfeld
- Italian: campo di battaglia
- Portuguese: campo de batalha
- Russian: по́ле бо́я
- Spanish: campo de batalla
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