SINGLE COMBAT

Definition: SINGLE COMBAT

SINGLE COMBAT

1. One in which a single combatant meets a single opponent, as in the case of David and Goliath; also, a duel. Syn: A battle; engagement; conflict; contest; contention; struggle; fight, strife. See Battle , Contest .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Contention

Duel, duello; single combat, monomachy, satisfaction, passage d'armes, passage of arms, affair of honor; triangular duel; hostile meeting, digladiation; deeds of arms, feats of arms; appeal to arms; (warfare).

Crosswords: SINGLE COMBAT

Books

• The History of Chivalry and Armor: With Descriptions of the Feudal System, the Practices of Knighthood, the Tournament, and Trials by Single Combat (reference)

• The Song of Roland: A Generative Study of the Formulaic Language in Te Single Combat (Faux Titre, No 20) (reference)

• Discourses of warre and single combat (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The Single combat. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Finnish

kaksintaistelu (duel). (various references)

German

zweikampf (duel). (various references)

Greek 

μονομαχία (battle combat, duel). (various references)

Hungarian

párviadal (fray, passage of arms), párbaj (duel, encounter, fray). (various references)

Pig Latin

inglesay ombatcay

Romanian

luptã în doi. (various references)

Russian 

единоборство. (various references)

Spanish

combate singular. (various references)

Swedish

holme (holm, inch, islet), envig (duel). (various references)

Turkish

teke tek çarpışma, göğüs göğüse çarpışma (close combat, dogfight, hand-to-hand combat), düello (duel, rencontre). (various references)

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