single combat

1. 1.

   a fight between two people

   “in all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat”

   Broaderfight

Questions about single combat

What does single combat mean?

single combat means "a fight between two people".

Is single combat a common word?

single combat 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.