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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields" [syn: battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor, field]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1769 1. a place where a battle is fought 2. an area of conflict

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also battleground) the piece of ground on which a battle is or was fought.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(battlefields) 1. A battlefield is a place where a battle is fought. ...the battlefields of the Somme. = battleground N-COUNT 2. You can refer to an issue or field of activity over which people disagree or compete as a battlefield. ...the domestic battlefield of family life. = battleground N-COUNT

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