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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

1 free from anxiety or distress.

2 euphemistic dead.

hold one's peace remain silent.
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 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

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