demilitarized zone

1. 1.

   a zone from which military forces or operations or installations are prohibited

   “tensions exist on both sides of the demilitarized zone separating North Korea and South Korea”

   SynonymsDMZ

   Broaderzone

Questions about demilitarized zone

What does demilitarized zone mean?

demilitarized zone means "a zone from which military forces or operations or installations are prohibited".

What is another word for demilitarized zone?

Close synonyms include DMZ. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is demilitarized zone a common word?

demilitarized zone 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.