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peace
English
Etymology
From Middle English pes, pais, pees, borrowed from Anglo-Norman peis and Old French pais (“peace”), from Latin p?x (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh??- (“to fasten, stick, place”), related to Latin pac?scor (“agree, stipulate”), Latin pang? (“fasten, fix”); see pact. Displaced native Middle English frith, frede (“peace”) (from Old English friþ, fr?od (“peace”)), Middle English sib, sibbe (“peace”) (from Old English sibb (“peace, kinship”)), Middle English grith (“peace, security”) (from Old English griþ and Old Norse grið), Middle English saht, saught (“peace, reconciliation”) (from Old English seht, sæht (“peace, pact, agreement”)). Doublet of pax.
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?s, IPA(key): /pi?s/
- Rhymes: -i?s
- Homophone: piece
Noun
peace (usually uncountable, plural peaces)
- A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony; absence of violence. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance.
- Synonyms: (poetic) frith; see also Thesaurus:calm
- Antonyms: disruption, violence
- A state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions.
- Harmony in personal relations.
- A state free of war, in particular war between different countries.
- Antonyms: war, violence
- 1969 March 31, John Lennon, Bagism Press Conference at Sacher Hotel, Vienna
- Now, a lot of cynics have said, “Oh, it’s easy to sit in bed for seven days,” but I’d like some of them to try it, and talk for seven days about peace. All we’re saying is give peace a chance.
- 1993, Marky Berry as "King Harkinian", a character in Animation Magic, Link: The Faces of Evil, Philips Interactive Media (publ.).
Derived terms
Pages starting with “peace”.
Related terms
- pacific
- pacify
- pacification
- pacifism
- pacifist
Translations
Interjection
peace
- (archaic) Shut up!, silence!; be quiet, be silent.
- (slang) Shortened form of peace out; goodbye.
Verb
peace (third-person singular simple present peaces, present participle peacing, simple past and past participle peaced)
- To make peace; to put at peace; to be at peace.
- 1997, Yusuf Jah, Shah'Keyah Jah, Uprising, page 49:
- Within every hood they have to be peacing with themselves. Then when you're living in peace with yourself, [...]
- 1997, Yusuf Jah, Shah'Keyah Jah, Uprising, page 49:
- (slang) To peace out.
Further reading
Wikiversity
- peace in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- peace in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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pleace
English
Verb
pleace
- (in use generally from the Middle English period to the fifteenth century and persisting in Scots until the seventeenth century) Obsolete spelling of please
Noun
pleace
- (in use in Scots until the seventeenth century and in some English dialects in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) Obsolete spelling of place
- I’m not to leave this pleace. — Oliver Goldsmith
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