Usually means: Conflict involving armed forces, violence.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. battle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. battle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Battle, battle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. battle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. battle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Battle, battle, the-battle: Wordnik
  7. battle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Battle, battle: Wiktionary
  9. battle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. battle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. battle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Battle, battle: Dictionary.com
  13. battle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. battle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Battle (Korean band), Battle (South Korean band), Battle (UK band), Battle (comics), Battle (disambiguation), Battle (formation), Battle (surname), Battle, The Battle (Allen-Lande album), The Battle (George Jones album), The Battle (Patrick Rimbaud novel), The Battle (boxing): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Battle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. battle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. battle: Rhymezone
  19. battle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. battle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Battle: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Battle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. battle: Free Dictionary
  24. battle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Battle, battle: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. Battle: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. battle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. battle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Battle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  5. BATTLE: Acronym Finder
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  7. battle: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. battle, battle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. BATTLE, Battle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A contest, a struggle.
noun:  (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
noun:  (military, now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
noun:  (military, obsolete) The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
noun:  (military, clipping of) battle buddy
verb:  (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
verb:  (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
adjective:  Of grass or pasture: nutritious to cattle or sheep; fattening, nourishing.
adjective:  (by extension) Of land (originally pastureland) or soil: fertile, fruitful.
verb:  To feed or nourish (someone or something).
verb:  To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.
noun:  A habitational surname from Middle English from places in England that have been sites of a battle.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A town and civil parish with a town council in Rother district, East Sussex, England; supposed site of the Battle of Hastings (OS grid ref TQ7416).
noun:  A hamlet in Yscir community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO0131).
noun:  A river in Saskatchewan, Canada
noun:  (historical) A former unincorporated community in Carbon County, Washington, United States.

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