battlefield
Where armies clash
A battlefield is a place where a battle is fought or was fought.
The term applies to active combat zones and historical sites: We visited the battlefield at Gettysburg.
Figuratively, any arena of intense conflict becomes a battlefield: The courtroom became a battlefield, Social media is a battlefield of competing narratives.
Exchange of gunfire
- skirmishBrief, limited combat
- infantryGround combat troops
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
assault · clash · engagement · frontline · guerrilla · offensive · platoon · siege
Pennsylvania battle site
- WaterlooCrushing, decisive defeat
- HastingsEnglish seaside town, historic
- SommeFrench river, WWI battlefield
- VerdunWWI battleground city
Normandy · Thermopylae · Antietam · Agincourt · fortifications · monuments · memorials · reenactment
Fortitude facing danger
- braveryBoldness before danger
- heroismExceptional courage under duress
- gallantryCourage, especially in combat
- fortitudeEnduring courage under pain
fearlessness · medal · decoration · citation · distinguished · commendation · valor · honor
Venue for contests
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
- showdownDecisive final confrontation
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
- conflictOpposition between parties
contest · challenge · adversary · opponent · stakes · victory · defeat · strategy
Agreement to cease hostilities
- cease-fireTemporary halt to fighting
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
- treatyBinding pact between nations
demilitarization · peacekeeping · reconstruction · reparations · occupation · liberation · devastation · rubble
firefight
Exchange of gunfire
ambush · assault · clash · engagement · frontline · guerrilla · offensive · platoon · siege · tactics
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania battle site
- WaterlooCrushing, decisive defeat
- HastingsEnglish seaside town, historic
- SommeFrench river, WWI battlefield
Verdun · Normandy · Thermopylae · Antietam · Agincourt · fortifications · monuments · memorials · reenactment · artifacts
courage
Fortitude facing danger
- braveryBoldness before danger
- heroismExceptional courage under duress
- gallantryCourage, especially in combat
fortitude · fearlessness · medal · decoration · citation · distinguished · commendation · valor · honor · duty
arena
Venue for contests
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
- showdownDecisive final confrontation
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
conflict · contest · challenge · adversary · opponent · stakes · victory · defeat · strategy · tactics
armistice
Agreement to cease hostilities
- cease-fireTemporary halt to fighting
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
treaty · demilitarization · peacekeeping · reconstruction · reparations · occupation · liberation · devastation · rubble · scars
fallen
Having dropped down
loss · grief · remembrance · mourning · survivor · aftermath · burial · cenotaph · graves · poppies
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- WWItrenches, no man's land, no mans land, trench warfare, armistice
- Epic BattlesTrojan War, Thermopylae, 300, Gladiator, Braveheart
- Epic WarfareIliad, Trojan War, Achilles, Hector, warrior
- epic poetry settingsTroy, Ithaca, underworld, Olympus, sea voyage
battlefieldhomefront
Civilian sector during conflict
home front · civilian life · home · rear · hearth
battlefieldpeace talks
Formal conflict-resolution discussions
negotiating table · peace conference · neutral ground · demilitarized zone · ceasefire zone
- battlefield casualtiesDead and wounded combatants
- battlefield reportsInformation from combat zones
- battlefield medicineEmergency care in combat zones
- battlefield surgeryMedical procedures during combat
- historic battlefieldLocation of significant past conflict