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battlegrounds

battlegrounds is the plural 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.

Questions about battlegrounds

What is battlegrounds the plural of?
Battlegrounds is the plural of battleground.

Words near battlegrounds in the dictionary

  1. battlefronts
  2. battleful
  3. battleground
  4. battleground state
  5. battleground states
  6. battlegrounds
  7. battlegroup
  8. battlegroups
  9. battlehorse
  10. battlehorses
  11. battleless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: battlegrounds (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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