Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

Adjective

The word "battle" can be used as noun, verb, proper noun and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

friend peace

Typical Location

battlefield court room iraq middle east middle eastern countries movie video game war

Capable Of

result in loss of life

Defined As

last name of opera star

Derived Terms

Battle Creek Battle Ground Battle Mountain Battle of Gaugamela Battle of Okinawa Battleford Father Charles goes down and ends battle Richard of York gave battle in vain Van Dorn battle flag active time battle battailous battle axe battle bus battle cruiser battle cry battle fatigue battle fatigues battle fleet battle honours battle it out battle jacket battle line battle map battle of the bands battle of the brains battle of the bulge battle of the currents battle of the forms battle of the sexes battle out battle pass battle piece battle rap battle rapper battle rhythm battle rifle battle rope battle royal battle royale battle ship battle song battle station battle stations battle tank battle taxi battle waggon battle wagon battle-array battle-ax battle-axe battle-cruiser battle-damaged battle-field battle-ground battle-hardened battle-line battle-royal battle-royale battle-sark battle-scarred battle-sharp battle-tested battle-twig battleball battlebus battlecraft battledress battlefield battlefront battleful battleground battlegroup battlehorse battleline battlemage battlemaster battleplan battleplane battler battleship battleskies battlesome battlespace battlesuit battlewagon battleward battlewards battlewise battleworks battleworthy battlezone cauldron battle cyberbattle do battle drawn battle field of battle fight a losing battle give battle gunbattle half the battle how goes the battle join battle knowing is half the battle line of battle line of battle ship lose one's battle main battle tank mid-battle midbattle minibattle no battle plan survives contact with the enemy no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy nonbattle order of battle outbattle overbattle pick one's battles pitched battle postbattle prebattle rap battle running battle uphill battle wager of battle

Etymologically Related To

batell batten better

Context

dialectal military uk

Subevents

have weapon

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

action attempt contend effort endeavor endeavour fight group action military action struggle try

Type Of (IsA)

event type fight fight between enemies military action military event physical destruction event television episode violent action

Manner Of

fight

Part Of

war

Related Terms

batful batten battlement embattle

Related Terms

action activity armed armed fight armed men armed struggle armies armies fight armies fighting army army fight army fighting axe batful battalia batten big big fight blood bloodshed body bulge bunker bunker hill canada combat conflict confrontation conquering conquering countries contest countries during during war east sussex encounter enemies engagement epic epic fight event fattening feed fertile field fight fight soldiers fighting fighting incident fighting wars fruitful guns hill improving in war in wars incident large large fight like like war little little war many men men military military encounter military fight military skirmish nourish nutritious of bulge opponents paddle part part of part war portion render river saskatchewan section segment session ship ships sides single single confrontation skirmish small small war soldiers struggle town two two sides uk vanguard war war activity war conflict war engagement war event war fight war fighting war in war part war portion war section war segment war session war skirmish wars weapons

Synonym Network

action conflict contest encounter fight struggle

Used For

being warrior compitition and for winning conquer enemy defeating enemy determining which party stronger fighting fighting war gaining territory gaining victory win campaign win war winning war

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.