battlefield /ˈbætəlˌfiːld/noun 1forms 1phrases 1 noun1 •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 — 1886 formsbattlefields Phrases with battlefield belemnite battlefieldA fossil site with an unusually high concentration of belemnite rostra.