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battle-ground

battle-ground is the alternative form of battleground.

Meaning of battleground

Noun

battleground (plural battlegrounds)

  1. A location where a battle may be fought, or has been fought.
    • The farmer's field was a civil war battleground, and relics such a minnie bullets were frequently found while plowing.
  2. (figuratively) Any place or situation of dispute or contention.
    • And now the two of them are lost in a screaming battleground1994, Andrew Scott, “People of the Sky”, in Twice Removed
  3. (figuratively) Any subject of dispute or contention.
    • Abortion was becoming the season's big political battleground.

Forms of battle-ground

pluralbattle-grounds

Questions about battle-ground

What is battle-ground the alternative form of?
Battle-ground is the alternative form of battleground.

Words near battle-ground in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: battle-ground (page history and authors); battleground (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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