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battle
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?bæt?l/, [?bat???]
- (US) enPR: b?t'l, IPA(key): /?bætl?/, [?bæ???], [bæt??]
- Rhymes: -æt?l
- Hyphenation: bat?tle
Etymology 1
From Middle English batel, batell, batelle, batayle, bataylle, borrowed from Old French bataille, from Late Latin batt?lia, variant of battu?lia (“fighting and fencing exercises”) from Latin battu? (“to strike, hit, beat, fight”), from a Gaulish root from Proto-Indo-European *b?ed?- (“to stab, dig”). Doublet of battalia and battel.
Displaced native Old English ?efeoht.
Alternative forms
- batail, battel, battell (14th–17th centuries)
Noun
battle (plural battles)
- A contest, a struggle.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Ecclesiastes, 9:11:
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Ecclesiastes, 9:11:
- (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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hayward to this entry?)
Derived terms
Related terms
- battlement
Translations
Verb
battle (third-person singular simple present battles, present participle battling, simple past and past participle battled)
- (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
- Scientists always battle over theories.
- She has been battling against cancer for years.
- (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
- She has been battling cancer for years.
Derived terms
- battle it out
Related terms
- embattle
Translations
Etymology 2
From Early Modern English batell, probably from Middle English *batel (“flourishing”), from Old English *batol (“improving, tending to be good”), from batian (“to get better, improve”) + -ol ( +? -le).
Alternative forms
- battil, battill, battel, baittle, bettle, batwell
Adjective
battle (comparative more battle, superlative most battle)
- (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England, agriculture) Improving; nutritious; fattening.
- battle grass, battle pasture
- (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) Fertile; fruitful.
- battle soil, battle land
Derived terms
- overbattle
Verb
battle (third-person singular simple present battles, present participle battling, simple past and past participle battled)
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To nourish; feed.
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To render (for example soil) fertile or fruitful
Related terms
- batful
- batten
Further reading
- battle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- battle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “battle”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- batlet, battel, tablet
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tourney
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”)
Noun
tourney (plural tourneys or tournies)
- Tournament.
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,
I sumon’d am to Tourney.
ten leagues beyond the wide worlds end
mee thinke it is noe iourney.
- By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,
- 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
- And let the recreant traitors seek
- My tourney court.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
- We hold a tourney here tomorrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
Verb
tourney (third-person singular simple present tourneys, present participle tourneying, simple past and past participle tourneyed)
- (archaic) To take part in a tournament.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional
- Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after King Richard’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England […]
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional
Anagrams
- you'ren't
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