Peace
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
peace/piːs/
▶noun
- 1 freedom from disturbance; tranquillity.
- 2 freedom from or the cessation of war.
■ a treaty agreeing peace between warring states.
- 3 (the peace) Christian Church an action such as a handshake taking the place of the kiss of peace.
– phrases
at peace
keep the peace refrain or prevent others from disturbing civil order.
make (one's) peace become reconciled.
at peace
- 1 free from anxiety or distress.
- 2 euphemistic dead.
keep the peace refrain or prevent others from disturbing civil order.
make (one's) peace become reconciled.
– origin ME: from OFr. pais, from L. pax, pac- ‘peace’.
'Peace' also found in these Oxford entries:
affray
- appease
- Aquarius
- Baha'i
- breach
- calumet
- card
- commission of the peace
- county commissioner
- easement
- eirenic
- flower children
- flower power
- golden age
- hippy
- JP
- Justice of the Peace
- kiss
- mend
- Nobel Prize
- olive branch
- pace
- pacific
- pacify
- pax
- Pax Romana
- pay
- peace
- peace dividend
- peacemaker
- peace offering
- peace officer
- peace pipe
- peace sign
- PPU
- Prince of Peace
- quiet
- reform
- rejectionist
- riot
- RIP
- road map
- salaam
- shalom
- sheriff
- worshipful
