Meaning of battle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A contest, a struggle.
2. A contest, a struggle
3. A habitational surname from Middle English from places in England that have been sites of a battle.
4. A one-on-one competition in rapping or breakdance.
5. A one-on-one competition in rapping or breakdance
6. A place name:
7. 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).
8. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
9. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement
10. A hamlet in Yscir community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO0131).
11. A river in Saskatchewan, Canada.
12. A division of an army; a battalion.
    archaic
13. A division of an army; a battalion
14. A former unincorporated community in Carbon County, Washington, United States.
    historical
15. The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
    obsolete
16. The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia
17. Clipping of battle buddy.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping

Equivalents

Examples

“the battle of life”

“I returned, and saw vnder the Sunne, That the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of vnderstanding, nor yet fauour to men of skil; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”

“[T]he whole intellectual battle that had at its centre the best poem of the best poet of that day, and had the English Revolution among issues of the strife, was quickening the energies within young Foe's [i.e., Daniel Defoe's] mind when his age was twenty.”

“In truth, Tottenham never really looked like taking all three points and this defeat means they face a battle to reach the knockout stages – with their next home game against PAOK Salonika on 30 November likely to prove decisive.”

“Australian broadcaster Clive James has admitted that he is losing his long-fought battle with leukaemia.”

“Thenne kyng Arthur made redy his hooſt in x batails and Nero was redy in the felde afore the caſtel Tarabil with a grete hooſt / & he had x batails with many mo peple than Arthur had […]”

Then King Arthur made ready his host in 10 battles and Nero was ready in the field before the castle Tarabil with a great host / and he had 10 battles with many more people than Arthur had […]

“They ſay, that the King diuided his Armie into three Battailes; whereof the Vant-guard onely well ſtrengthened with wings, came to fight.”

“Already Cæſar Has ravaged more than half the Globe, and ſees Mankind grown thin by his deſtructive Sword: Should he go further, Numbers would be wanting To form new Battels, and ſupport his Crimes.”

“No gentleman would appear in the field but on horſeback. To ſerve in any other manner he would have deemed derogatory to his rank. The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called The battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action. The infantry, collected from the dregs and refuſe of the people, ill armed and worſe diſciplined; was of no account.”

“Once I link up with Lord Bolton and the Freys, I will have more than twelve thousand men. I mean to divide them into three battles and start up the causeway a half-day apart.”

“Iohn Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Earle of Surrey, Shall haue the leading of the Foot and Horſe. They thus directed, we will fllow ^([sic]) In the maine Battell, whose puiſſance on either ſide Shall be well-winged with our cheefeſt Horſe: This, and Saint George to boote.”

“hovering aloofe in the fields he suffered Wyat his Van and main Battell (cutting off some of the Reare) to march undisturbed save with one shot, from Knights-Bridge to Charing Chrosse.”

“The artillery, under Waldmann, with whom Herter rode in company, was divided between the vanguard and the “battle,” or main body, which comprised the bulk of the army.”

CEFR level