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battleground

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bat·tle·ground  (btl-ground)
n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.battlegroundbattleground - a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
battlefront, front line, front - the line along which opposing armies face each other
sector - a portion of a military position
Translations
battleground [ˈbætəlgraʊnd] n
(= place) → champ m de bataille
(= controversial issue) → champ m de bataille
the battleground of education → le champ de bataille de l'éducation
battle lines npl
the battle lines are drawn → chacun a choisi son camp


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He's gone to the battleground with his second and the surgeon--also with his brother.
Of the seven hundred and fifty students in the university at the time I am writing of, only eighty belonged to the five corps, and it is only these corps that do the dueling; occasionally other students borrow the arms and battleground of the five corps in order to settle a quarrel, but this does not happen every dueling-day.
This general, hating Barclay, rode to visit a friend of his own, a corps commander, and, having spent the day with him, returned to Barclay and condemned, as unsuitable from every point of view, the battleground he had not seen.
 
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