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battleground

noun
/ˈbætəlˌɡɹaʊnd/

Etymology

From battle + ground.

  1. inherited from *grunduz✻
  2. inherited from *grundu✻
  3. inherited from grund
  4. inherited from ground
  5. compounded as battleground — “battle + ground”

Definitions

  1. A location where a battle may be fought, or has been fought.

    • The farmer's field was a civil war battleground, and relics such a minnie bullets were frequently found while plowing.

  2. Any place or situation of dispute or contention.

    • And now the two of them are lost in a screaming battleground

  3. Any subject of dispute or contention.

    • Abortion was becoming the season's big political battleground.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Ellipsis of battleground state.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA