What is another word for battlefields?

Pronunciation: [bˈatə͡lfˌiːldz] (IPA)

Battlefields are sites where battles or conflicts took place. Synonyms for the word battlefield include war zones, combat zones, battle sites, warfields, killing fields, and war theaters. These terms all refer to an area where military action occurred, often resulting in injuries, deaths, and the loss of infrastructure. In addition to these synonyms, there are also specific terms used for certain types of battlefields, such as trench warfare for the battlefields of World War I. Regardless of the term used, the history and impact of these sites on society are significant, and they are often memorialized to honor those who fought and sacrificed in the name of a cause.

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What are the hypernyms for Battlefields?

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  • Other hypernyms:

    battlegrounds, military sites, theatres of war, war arenas, war zones.

Usage examples for Battlefields

He observed with deep regret that they visited the mountains, and valleys, and rivers, and islands, and battlefields, and cathedrals of the land, that to him had been filled with sacred interests by the writings of Scott, and saw them all without emotion.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Outside lay some of the bad cases until the stretcher-bearers carried them down, and others sat on the side of the road or lay at full length there, dog-weary after their long walk from the battlefields.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
It was in the afternoon of the first day that the luck of the weather was decided against us and there began those heavy rain-storms which drenched the battlefields in August and made them dreadful for men and beasts.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs

Famous quotes with Battlefields

  • The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.
    Joe Barton
  • The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
    Henry Ward Beecher
  • We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
    Madeleine L'Engle
  • Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
    Marshall McLuhan
  • However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
    Randy Neugebauer

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