battlefield
noun
1 battlefield
A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought:
— They made a tour of Civil War battlefields.
synonyms: battleground, field, field of battle, field of honor.
Roget 722:
warfare;
fighting
etc.
v.;
hostilities;
war,
arms,
the sword;
Mars,
Bellona,
grim visaged war,
horrida bella [Lat.];
bloodshed.
appeal to arms,
appeal to the sword;
ordeal of battle;
wager of battle;
ultima ratio regum [Lat.],
arbitrament of the sword.
battle array,
campaign,
crusade,
expedition,
operations;
mobilization;
state of siege;
battlefield,
theater of operations
etc.
(arena)
728;
warpath.
art of war,
tactics,
strategy,
castrametation†;
generalship;
soldiership;
logistics;
military evolutions,
ballistics,
gunnery;
chivalry.
gunpowder,
shot.
battle,
tug of war
etc.
(contention)
720;
service,
campaigning,
active service,
tented field;
kriegspiel [G.],
Kriegsspiel [G.];
fire cross,
trumpet,
clarion,
bugle,
pibroch†,
slogan;
war-cry,
war-whoop;
battle cry,
beat of drum,
rappel,
tom-tom;
calumet of war;
word of command;
password,
watchword;
passage d-armes [Fr.].
war to the death,
war to the knife;
guerre a mort [Fr.],
guerre a outrance [Fr.];
open war,
internecine war,
civil war.
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Dutch: slagveld, gevechtsterrein, krijgstoneel, strijdgebied, strijdtoneel
Polish: pole, pole bitwy
Moby thesaurus: DMZ, aceldama, battle line, battle site, battleground, combat area, combat zone, enemy line, field, field of battle, field of blood, firing line, front line, killing ground, landing beach, line, line of battle, seat of war, shambles, the front, theater, theater of operations, theater of war, zone of communications ... show more.
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