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battle-field

battle-field is the alternative form of battlefield.

Meaning of battlefield

Noun

battlefield (plural battlefields)

  1. The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.
    • 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 Vicksburg1886, Ulysses S. Grant, chapter 35, in Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant

Forms of battle-field

pluralbattle-fields

Questions about battle-field

What is battle-field the alternative form of?
Battle-field is the alternative form of battlefield.

Words near battle-field in the dictionary

  1. battle-axe
  2. battle-axes
  3. battle-cruiser
  4. battle-cruisers
  5. battle-damaged
  6. battle-field
  7. battle-fields
  8. battle-ground
  9. battle-grounds
  10. battle-hardened
  11. battle-line

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Adapted from Wiktionary: battle-field (page history and authors); battlefield (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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