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battlemaster

battlemaster noun: one who is in charge of managing the troops during battle.

Noun

battlemaster (plural battlemasters)

  1. One who is in charge of managing the troops during battle.
    • You shall be my battlemaster, Murad, and all shall know you stand highest among my servants.1985, Raymond E[lias] Feist, Silverthorn, Grafton Books, published 1986, →ISBN, page 22
    • Over the radio net the battlemasters chattered in yashi growls and hisses as they shuffled patrol formations again.1988, Christopher Rowley, Golden Sunlands, Legend, →ISBN, page 177
  2. One who is in charge of managing simulated battle or war games.
    • The battlemaster will remind participants to conserve their ammo during remainder of scenario.1992 September, Data Tables From Combat Vehicle Command and Control Battalion-Level Preliminary Evaluation, United States Army, Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, page F-9
    • No umpires, battlemasters, or other outside influences are expected or permitted to affect the outcome of a networked simulation engagement once it begins.1994, J. D. Fletcher, “What Networked Simulation Offers to the Assessment of Collectives”, in Harold F. O’Neil, Jr., Eva L. Baker, editors, Technology Assessment in Software Applications, Hillsdale...
  3. One who is very skilled in battling.
    • But a word of warning: This game is tough enough on the normal setting. Only battlemasters supreme will venture far on the higher settings.1993 March, Clayton Walnum, “Lords of Thunder”, in VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, page 41

Examples of battlemaster in a sentence

  • Battlemasters didn’t have to answer to anybody.1994, S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling, Susan Shwartz, Judith Tarr, Harry Turtledove, Blood Vengeance (War World), Baen Books, →ISBN, page 209:
  • With her elegant gowns and silvery ringlets, the delicate drow seemed the most unlikely of battlemasters.1995, Elaine Cunningham, Daughter of the Drow, TSR, Inc., →ISBN, page 295:
  • I set my javelin as our battlemaster had taught.1997, David Feintuch, The Still, Warner Books, →ISBN, page 446:
  • With flame, claw, and spell it—no, she, they said—smote the most valiant knights and the shrewdest battlemasters, sniffing out war wizards whatever their disguise and rending them to pieces.2000, Troy Denning, Ed Greenwood, Death of the Dragon (The Cormyr Saga; III), Wizards of the Coast, published 2001, →ISBN, page 319:

Forms of battlemaster

pluralbattlemasters

Origin of battlemaster

From battle + master.

Questions about battlemaster

What does battlemaster mean?
Battlemaster means one who is in charge of managing the troops during battle.
How do you use battlemaster in a sentence?
Battlemasters didn’t have to answer to anybody.
What part of speech is battlemaster?
Battlemaster is a noun.
What is the plural of battlemaster?
The plural of battlemaster is battlemasters.

Words near battlemaster in the dictionary

  1. battleless
  2. battleline
  3. battlelines
  4. battlemage
  5. battlemages
  6. battlemaster
  7. battlemasters
  8. battlement
  9. battlemented
  10. battlements
  11. battlepass

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