field artillery
2
5.8
- noun
- /fiːld ɑːrˈtɪləri/
- Specialized
:
artillería de campaña
- The field artillery provided crucial fire support during the battle, helping to repel the enemy's advance.
- field artillery battalion
- field artillery piece
- field artillery officer
Examples
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Today, we're here in Wereth, Belgium, to honor 11 members of the 333rd field artillery battalion that were brutally massacred on this site December 17, 1944.
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In those pre-dawn hours of the 16th, observers from the 333rd field artillery battalion were the first to report German artillery engagement.
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After basic training, he was shipped to a field artillery unit in Alexander, La.
Blog text (25) -
My father arrived in Hawaii to serve in the field artillery in 1938.
Blog text (11) -
Yankee field artillery was still in business south of Rockville, throwing shells into the town to slow the Confederate advance.
Fiction book (1992) -
The 333rd field artillery battalion was one of nine all African-American field artillery battalions deployed to the European theater of operations in World War II.
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I was sixteen years old and lied about my age to enlist as a private in a field artillery battalion, a proud uniformed soldier between the wars.
Fiction book (1990) -
Squarely in the path of Hitler's most experienced storm troopers, just 6 kilometers from the border, were men of the African-American 333rd field artillery battalion.
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Over the coming days, the Germans repeatedly bombarded Westerplatte with naval and heavy field artillery along with dive-bombing raids by Junkers Ju 87 Stukas.
Blog text (5) -
The BH forces profited greatly from a single operation north of Tuzla, in which a 100-vehicle Serbian supply column was captured, giving them around 40 tanks and 30 armored personnel carriers, as well as large numbers of field artillery.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
184
6.9
Large guns on land that fire shells over long distances
10
9.9
A large gun with a short barrel that fires shells high to hit nearby targets
1
6.8
A large movable weapon soldiers use on the battlefield to fire at enemy troops
A large movable gun used on land in war and fired by soldiers
How Powerful
- Specialized
12
5.0
- Specialized
2
5.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'field' (the ground or battlefield) with 'artillery' (large-calibre guns): it denotes artillery deployed or used in the field. This simple noun–noun composition is a regular, cross-linguistically common modifier pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand the MWE.
Etymology
Field artillery comes from the simple image of artillery, meaning big guns, moving across the field to help soldiers in battle. That's why it means the large, movable guns an army uses to 'support' front-line troops.