bosworth field

1. 1.

   the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (1485); Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned as Henry VII

   Broaderpitched battle

   Part ofWar of the Roses

   Leicestershire

Questions about bosworth field

What does bosworth field mean?

bosworth field means "the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (1485); Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned as Henry VII".

Is bosworth field a common word?

bosworth field is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.