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Battlefield vs Champian - What's the difference?

battlefield | champian |

As nouns the difference between battlefield and champian

is that battlefield is the field where a land battle is or was fought while champian is a plain; a flat expanse of land; a champaign.

As an adjective champian is

(obsolete) flat and open, like a champaign.

battlefield

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The field where a land battle is or was fought.
  • * 1886' ''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'' — Ulysses S. Grant, ''Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant , Chapter 35.
  • champian

    English

    Alternative forms

    * champion, champyon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plain; a flat expanse of land; a champaign.
  • A species of landscape that is flat and open.
  • The level open countryside, as distinct from the mountains, forests or towns.
  • (agriculture) common land; land that is not enclosed
  • Someone who farms land that is not enclosed.
  • A battlefield, especially when flat and open.
  • A field of inquiry or study.
  • Adjective

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  • (obsolete) Flat and open, like a champaign.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.4:
  • *:Him selfe out of the forest he did wynd, / And by good fortune the plaine champion wonne […].
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