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Synset

a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
<noun.act>   freq. cnt.: 104 freq. cnt.: 73 freq. cnt.: 21 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 4

battle more info
conflict more info
engagement more info
fight more info

sample sentences

"Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"
"he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
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derivationally related form
battle
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derivationally related form
fight
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derivationally related form
engage
semantic pointers
hypernym
action, military action
part holonym
war, warfare
domain of synset (topic)
armed forces, military, armed services, military machine, war machine
hyponym
Armageddon pitched battle naval battle combat, armed combat dogfight assault
instance hyponym
Battle of Britain Drogheda