Definitions for battlefield

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor, field(noun)

    a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

    "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. battlefield(noun)ˈbæt lˌfild

    the place a battle is fought

    the battlefield at Gettysburg

  2. battlefieldˈbæt lˌfild

    a place or area of knowledge in which there are arguments

    a legal battleground; the battleground states in the election

Wiktionary

  1. battlefield(Noun)

    The field where a land battle is or was fought.

    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 u2014 Ulysses S. Grant, Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, Chapter 35.


Translations for battlefield

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

battlefield(noun)

the place where a battle is, or was, fought

dead bodies covered the battlefield.

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