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Translate battle from English to French

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battle:
- guerre; lutte; bataille; combat; bataille rangée
Wiktionary:
- battle → lutter, batailler, combattre
- battle → lutte, bataille, combat
- battle → se battre, bataille, combat, escarmouche, lutte, faire la guerre, guerroyer

English

Detailed Translations for battle from English to French

battle:

battle [the ~] noun

the battle (war)
la guerre; la lutte
- guerre [la ~] noun
- lutte [la ~] noun
the battle (war)
la bataille; le combat; la lutte; la guerre
- bataille [la ~] noun
- combat [le ~] noun
- lutte [la ~] noun
- guerre [la ~] noun
the battle
la bataille; le combat; la bataille rangée
- bataille [la ~] noun
- combat [le ~] noun
- bataille rangée [la ~] noun

Translation Matrix for battle:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
bataille	battle; war	fight; scuffle; tussle
bataille rangée	battle
combat	battle; war	fight; fighting; scuffle; tussle
guerre	battle; war	war
lutte	battle; war	challenge; contest; dispute; fight; grappling; impugn; labyrinth; maze; scuffle; struggle; struggling; tussle; tussling; wrestle; wrestling
-	conflict; engagement; fight; struggle
Verb	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	combat

Related Words for "battle":

battles

Synonyms for "battle":

conflict; fight; engagement; military action; action
struggle; attempt; effort; endeavor; endeavour; try
group action
combat; contend; fight; struggle

Related Definitions for "battle":

an energetic attempt to achieve something¹
- he fought a battle for recognition¹
a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war¹
- Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga¹
an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)¹
- police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs¹
battle or contend against in or as if in a battle¹
- they battled over the budget¹

Wiktionary Translations for battle:

battle

verb

(intransitive) to join in battle; to contend in fight
- battle → lutter

noun

struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life
- battle → lutte
general action, fight, or encounter; a combat
- battle → bataille; lutte

battle

noun

combat entre deux armées
- bataille → battle; engagement
guerre|fr combat général entre deux armées.
- bataille → battle; blow; hit; strike; whack; stroke; scuffle; struggle; action; fight; clash; combat; fray
action par laquelle on attaquer et l’on se défendre.
- combat → combat; battle; scuffle; struggle; action; fight; clash; fray

verb

livrer de petits combats.
- batailler → battle; fight; struggle; strive; contend
attaquer son ennemi, ou en soutenir l’attaque.
- combattre → fight; struggle; strive; contend; battle
Traductions à trier
- lutter → fight; struggle; strive; contend; battle

Traductions à trier suivant le sens
- se battre → fight; battle

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• battle	→ bataille	↔ veldslag — een treffen tussen twee of meer legers
• battle	→ combat; escarmouche	↔ Gefecht — Militär: Kampfhandlung zwischen gegnerischen militärischen Einheiten
• battle	→ combat; lutte	↔ Kampf — militärische Auseinandersetzung feindlicher Truppen
• battle	→ combat; bataille	↔ Schlacht — große Kampfhandlung zwischen Heeren
• battle	→ faire la guerre; guerroyer	↔ bekriegen — gegen jemanden oder etwas kriegerisch vorgehen

Related Translations for battle

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University