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/bˈætəlgrˌaʊnd/ Listen

Battleground

noun

A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought. Synonyms: battlefield, field, field of battle, field of honor.

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"Battleground" Quotes from Famous Books

... and 6th of May, 1864, occurred the battle of the Wilderness, near the old battleground of Chancellorsville. No one could describe it, for it was fought in the dense woods, and the two days of useless butchery with not the slightest signs of civilized warfare sickened both armies, and, with no victory for either, they retired ...

— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye

... holding his beard aside in one hand as he bent over the paper. When other customers came in, he would put the map away with a twinkle, and the topic was dropped. But often the glass top of the perfume counter was requisitioned as a large-scale battleground, and the pink bottle of rose water set to represent Von Hindenburg while the green phial of smelling salts was Joffre or Brussilov. We fought out the battle of the Marne pretty completely on the perfume counter. ...

— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley

Words linked to "Battleground" : front, sector, front line, piece of land, parcel of land, piece of ground, tract, field of honor, Armageddon, parcel, battlefront, Camlan