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Frontline vs Battlefield - What's the difference?

frontline | battlefield |

As nouns the difference between frontline and battlefield

is that frontline is while battlefield is the field where a land battle is or was fought.

As an adjective frontline

is (military) located at a front.

frontline

English

Alternative forms

* front-line (in attributive use); front line

Adjective

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  • (military) Located at a front
  • Describing the most advanced or important

    • Noun

    (en noun)

    • Derived terms

    * frontliner

    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.