battlefield

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a region where a battle is being, or has been, fought

   They made a tour of Civil War battlefields.

2. 2
   noun

   The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.

   The night of the 16th of May found McPherson's command bivouacked from two to six miles west of the battlefield, along the line of the road to Vicksburg

Etymology

From battle + field.