26984 words

battlefield

3 definitions • 4 examples
1
a place where a battle is being fought or has been fought in the past:

Examples:

They carried the wounded from the battlefield.
a Civil War battlefield
2
a subject on which people strongly disagree:

Examples:

The issue has become a political battlefield in recent years.
3
a place where a battle (= a fight between armed forces) is being fought or was fought:

Examples:

We visited the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg.

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