• n.
    ⦿a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
    lexical concept
  • Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chattanooga
  • he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:battle
  2. enl:conflict
  3. enl:engagement
  4. enl:fight
wn:interlingual indexili:i40416
wn:eq synonymdn:slag§2

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • conflict
  • battleconflictengagementfight