martial
part of speech
adjective (martial)
meaning for a pupil
1) Connected with fighting or war. tree →
2) «Martial arts» are fighting sports and skills from Asia and other places, such as karate, judo, kung fu and taekwondo. tree →
3) «Martial law» is when the army takes control of a country instead of the usual government. tree →
sense in the lessons
In PE and hobbies it almost always comes in «martial arts»: children do karate or judo, earn coloured belts, bow to the teacher, and learn self-control and respect. In history lessons «martial law» and «martial music» appear in war times.
examples
- My brother does martial arts after school. tree →
- Karate and judo are martial arts. tree →
- She got her yellow belt in a martial arts class. tree →
- Martial arts teach discipline and respect. tree →
- The general declared martial law. tree →
- Martial music played as the soldiers marched. tree →
- A KING, whose only son was fond of martial exercises, had a dream in which he was warned that his son would be killed by a lion. tree →
note
Spelling: «martial» (with «-tial», said «MAR-shul»); do not confuse with «marshal» (an officer) or «Martian» (from Mars). Martial arts are for self-control and self-defence, not for hurting people in the playground.
In the corpora
- There is a real Chinese martial art called Praying Mantis style, said to have been inspired by watching a mantis fight.
- Judo and other martial arts teach students how to fall safely.
Trees and pragmatics
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