battlefront

noun

bat·​tle·​front ˈba-tᵊl-ˌfrənt 

1

: the military sector in which actual combat takes place

2

: a place or context within which a struggle is fought

… he had already served more than a decade as an attorney on the battlefronts of the civil rights movement.

—Vincent Harding

Examples of battlefront in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The homefront became an essential battlefront. —Gil Troy, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026

This next stage of what has been a raging war between former colleagues since the dark days of the Covid pandemic represents a surge on the judicial battlefront. —Dominic Patten, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2026

Imagine how Trump’s words affected the mother of Danish machine-gunner Sophia Bruun, killed in action in 2010 at the age of 22, who fought alongside British army troops in the battlefront province of Helmand. —Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026

According to the Examiner, Princess Anne is on Prince William and Queen Camilla’s side on the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle battlefront and is trying to block the Sussexes’ possible return. —Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 4 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1813, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for battlefront

• oceanfront
• riverfront
• waterfront
• affront
• confront
• exeunt
• forefront
• lakefront
• manhunt
• sederunt
• blunt
• brunt