battlefields

Sites of warfare

Battlefields are places where battles have been or are being fought.

The term applies both to active combat zones and to historical sites preserved as memorials: We visited the Gettysburg battlefield.

Figuratively, any arena of conflict becomes a battlefield: The courtroom became a battlefield, Social media is the new battlefield for political campaigns.

military

warfare

Armed conflict between groups

trenchesElongated ground excavations
frontlinesCombat's forward edge
soldiersMilitary personnel who fight

artillery · casualties · strategy · infantry · fortifications · commanders · tanks · bunkers · no-man's-land · offensive

historical

Gettysburg

Pennsylvania battle site

WaterlooCrushing, decisive defeat
NormandyNorthern French coastal region
SommeFrench river, WWI battlefield

Verdun · Thermopylae · Agincourt · Stalingrad · Hastings · Antietam · Gallipoli · Austerlitz · Kursk · Marathon

tourism

memorial

Thing preserving remembrance

monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
cemeteryPlace for interring remains
preservationMaintaining something's condition

reenactment · museum · pilgrimage · commemoration · markers · visitors · heritage · tours · interpretive · relics

landscape

terrain

Land's physical features

scarredMarked by healed wounds
crateredMarked with bowl-shaped hollows
ravagedSeverely damaged or destroyed

muddy · devastation · ruins · desolation · barren · debris · wreckage · pockmarked · scorched · churned

metaphorical

struggle

Labored effort against resistance

arenaVenue for contests
contestedArgued against, disputed
conflictOpposition between parties

adversaries · opposition · showdown · confrontation · rivals · territory · corporate · political · ideological · courtroom

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