postbattle

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adjective

After a battle.

OriginEnglish battle ← Middle English batayle ← Old French bataille →
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Meanings

adjectivepostbattle (not comparable)
  1. not comparableAfter a battle.

    They can be noisy and turbulent, as in “That Man I Shot,” a soldier’s postbattle reactions set to a feedback-drenched Crazy Horse stomp, or steadfast and long-suffering, as in the album’s other Iraq war song, “The Home Front,” Mr. Hood’s sketch of a soldier’s family.

    2008 January 21, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*bʰedʰh₂-
  8. Latinbattuō
  9. Late Latinbattālia
  10. Old Frenchbataille
  11. Middle Englishbatayle
  12. Englishbattle
  13. Englishpostbattle

From post- + battle.

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APA

postbattle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postbattle

MLA

“postbattle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postbattle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postbattle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postbattle.

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