Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area where a battle is fought.
- noun A sphere of contention.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The scene of a battle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a region where a battle is fought.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The field where a land battle is or was fought.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
Etymologies
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Examples
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Isolating the battlefield is a cardinal rule of warfare.
The Pakistan Paradox Bret Stephens 2010
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There will always be some difficult border cases, but generally temporal and spatial proximity to the battlefield is a good basis for deciding the bin into which the person initially lands.
Balkinization 2007
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There will always be some difficult border cases, but generally temporal and spatial proximity to the battlefield is a good basis for deciding the bin into which the person initially lands.
Balkinization 2007
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There will always be some difficult border cases, but generally temporal and spatial proximity to the battlefield is a good basis for deciding the bin into which the person initially lands.
Balkinization 2007
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There will always be some difficult border cases, but generally temporal and spatial proximity to the battlefield is a good basis for deciding the bin into which the person initially lands.
Balkinization 2007
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But for the residents of Mrs. Payne's boarding house, the battlefield is the supper table, and the enemy is the resident of the room next door.
A Different Stripe: 2007
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There will always be some difficult border cases, but generally temporal and spatial proximity to the battlefield is a good basis for deciding the bin into which the person initially lands.
Balkinization 2007
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There will always be some difficult border cases, but generally temporal and spatial proximity to the battlefield is a good basis for deciding the bin into which the person initially lands.
Balkinization 2007
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But for the residents of Mrs. Payne's boarding house, the battlefield is the supper table, and the enemy is the resident of the room next door.
The Ken Burns Effect: World War II Classics for Veterans Day 2007
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There will always be some difficult border cases, but generally temporal and spatial proximity to the battlefield is a good basis for deciding the bin into which the person initially lands.
Balkinization 2007
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