FIELD OF BATTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field of battle mean? 

• FIELD OF BATTLE (noun)
  The noun FIELD OF BATTLE has 1 sense:

1. a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

  Familiarity information: FIELD OF BATTLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD OF BATTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

battlefield; battleground; field; field of battle; field of honor

Context example:

they made a tour of Civil War battlefields

Hypernyms ("field of battle" is a kind of...):

parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)

Meronyms (parts of "field of battle"):

battlefront; front; front line (the line along which opposing armies face each other)

sector (a portion of a military position)

Instance hyponyms:

Armageddon ((New Testament) the scene of the final battle between the kings of the Earth at the end of the world)

Camlan ((Arthurian legend) the battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded)

 Context examples 

Here then is my first despatch from a field of battle:

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The roughs had also fled at the appearance of Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As a man upon a field of battle will receive a mortal hurt, and scarcely know that he is struck, so I, when I was left alone with my undisciplined heart, had no conception of the wound with which it had to strive.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)