How to pronounce “battle”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A contest, a struggle.
• (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
• (military, now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
• (military, obsolete) The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
• (military) Clipping of battle buddy.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
• (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
• [Adjective]
• Of grass or pasture: nutritious to cattle or sheep; fattening, nourishing.
• (by extension) Of land (originally pastureland) or soil: fertile, fruitful.

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