ARMED COMBAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does armed combat mean? 

• ARMED COMBAT (noun)
  The noun ARMED COMBAT has 1 sense:

1. an engagement fought between two military forces

  Familiarity information: ARMED COMBAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMED COMBAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An engagement fought between two military forces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

armed combat; combat

Hypernyms ("armed combat" is a kind of...):

battle; conflict; engagement; fight (a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "armed combat"):

belligerency; hostilities (fighting; acts of overt warfare)

trench warfare (a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other)

aggression (the act of initiating hostilities)

Holonyms ("armed combat" is a part of...):

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)