battlefield
/ˈbat(ə)lfiːld
/(also battleground /ˈbat(ə)lɡraʊnd/)
noun
1The piece of ground on which a battle is or was fought: the battlefields of the Great War death on the battlefield [as modifier]: battlefield conditions battlefield nuclear weapons...
- Why did men keep on fighting when conditions on the battlefield were so awful?
- The debt of gratitude owed to veterans of the Second World War is to be partially repaid through a £10m scheme allowing them to visit the foreign battlegrounds where they fought.
- Paramedics should not have to enter a battleground every time they fight to save someone's life.
Synonyms
battleground, front, battle front, battle lines, field of operations, field of battle, combat zone, theatre, theatre/arena of war, battle stations
historical lists
1.1A place or situation of strife or conflict: an ideological battlefield...
- Such was the importance of the sector that it regularly became an ideological battleground that boiled over into conflict.
- Women in most (including Western) cultures are required to embody the ethnicity of a culture and our bodies become the battlegrounds for conflicts between men of different cultural groups.
- The house-building sector is the perfect battleground for these two emotions.