battle
IPA: bˈætʌɫ
noun
- A contest, a struggle.
- (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
- (military, now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
- (military, obsolete) The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
- (military, clipping of) battle buddy
- A habitational surname from Middle English from places in England that have been sites of a battle.
- A place name:
- A town in East Sussex, England; supposed site of the Battle of Hastings.
- A hamlet in Yscir community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO0131).
- A river in Saskatchewan, Canada
- (historical) A former unincorporated community in Carbon County, Washington, United States.
verb
- (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
- (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
- To feed or nourish (someone or something).
- To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.
adjective
- Of grass or pasture: nutritious to cattle or sheep; fattening, nourishing.
- (by extension) Of land (originally pastureland) or soil: fertile, fruitful.
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Examples of "battle" in Sentences
- The conflict culminated in the battle of Shigisan.
- Many soldiers were inspired to fight and win the battle.
- The final battle of the Conquest was the battle of Corrin.
- The following day fighting resumed in the battle of the island.
- Once at the battle, the troopers would dismount to fight on foot.
- This makes utilizing the arm in the heat of battle somewhat frustrating.
- In the final battle of the war, the brothers' armies fight to a stalemate.
- The outnumbered Russians fight fiercely and bravely but they lose the battle.
- The characters fight Tyranthraxus the Flamed One in a climactic final battle.
- He died in the War of the Ring, fighting in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
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