field of battle

1. 1.

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

   “they made a tour of Civil War battlefields”

   Synonymsbattlefieldbattlegroundfield of honorfield

   Broadertract

   NarrowerArmageddonCamlan

   Partsbattlefrontsector

Questions about field of battle

What does field of battle mean?

field of battle means "a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought".

What is another word for field of battle?

Close synonyms include battlefield, battleground, field of honor, field. 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 of battle a common word?

field of battle 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.