Field Of Battle (Noun)
Meaning
A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields".
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- The field of battle was scarred and barren, a testament to the brutal fighting that had taken place there.
- The general surveyed the field of battle, trying to make sense of the chaos and destruction that lay before him.
- The tour group walked solemnly across the field of battle, paying their respects to the soldiers who had lost their lives there.
- The field of battle was eerily quiet, the only sound the distant hum of flies buzzing over the bodies of the fallen.
- Historians have long studied the field of battle, trying to understand the tactics and strategies that led to the outcome of the war.