field artillery

1. 1.

   movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops)

   Synonymsfield gun

   Broaderartillery

Questions about field artillery

What does field artillery mean?

field artillery means "movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops)".

What is another word for field artillery?

Close synonyms include field gun. 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 field artillery a common word?

field artillery 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.