0 a place where a battle is being fought or has been fought in the past:
2 a place where a battle (= a fight between armed forces) is being fought or was fought:
We visited the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg.
A new generation with new sound-reproduction technology entered the sites and converted some of them into ' virtual musical battlefields', with a dozen or more cassette-players blaring at the same time.
Both sides must realise that they must resolve their differences at the negotiating table and not on the battlefields.
We are going to lead our youth not to battlefields but to those higher fields of peace and contented happiness.
The worst acts of aggression have been carried out against the common people when their sons were fighting on foreign battlefields.
People collaborate these days and there are no battlefields in organisations.
Individuals are expected to respect all past battlefields, which may be the last resting place of so many, and not to disturb them.
During the last war, the monthly average of casualties on the battlefields was 10,700.
We have trains, motor racing, canals, history and battlefields.