Battlefield Meaning
/ˈbætəlˌfiːld/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.
Sentence Examples
He would still be alive had he refused to go to the battlefield then.
The battlefield was full of the dead and the dying.
The two opposing armies faced each other across the battlefield.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After the war, the ____ was covered with abandoned equipment and craters.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The soldiers fought bravely on the ____ throughout the whole of the day.
Word Origin & History
From battle + field.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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"
— 1886, Ulysses S. Grant, chapter 35, in Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant:
"Though in the past it saw much of the unhappiness and strife of Border warfare—the great battlefields of Pilleth and Mortimer's Cross are nearby—it is now a quiet and happy place."
— 1939 September, John D. Hewitt, “The Kington Branch of the G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 191:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After the war, the ____ was covered with abandoned equipment and craters.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The soldiers fought bravely on the ____ throughout the whole of the day.