BATTLEFIELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does battlefield mean? 

• BATTLEFIELD (noun)
  The noun BATTLEFIELD has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BATTLEFIELD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTLEFIELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

battlefield; battleground; field; field of battle; field of honor

Context example:

they made a tour of Civil War battlefields

Hypernyms ("battlefield" is a kind of...):

parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)

Meronyms (parts of "battlefield"):

battlefront; front; front line (the line along which opposing armies face each other)

sector (a portion of a military position)

Instance hyponyms:

Armageddon ((New Testament) the scene of the final battle between the kings of the Earth at the end of the world)

Camlan ((Arthurian legend) the battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded)

 Context examples 

When he got near the battlefield a great part of the king’s men had already fallen, and little was wanting to make the rest give way.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

That doctor can help you become free of a dependence on a substance or work through post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from being on the battlefield, for example.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)