 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
peace
noun
1: the state prevailing during the absence of war [ant: {war}]
2: harmonious relations; freedom from disputes; "the roommates
lived in peace together"
3: the absence of mental stress or anxiety [syn: {peacefulness},
{peace of mind}, {repose}, {serenity}, {heartsease}, {ataraxis}]
4: the general security of public places; "he was arrested for
disturbing the peace" [syn: {public security}]
5: a treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th"
[syn: {peace treaty}, {pacification}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peace \Peace\, verb (used with an object) & i.
To make or become quiet; to be silent; to stop. [R.] ''Peace
your tattlings.'' --Shak.
When the thunder would not peace at my bidding. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peace \Peace\, noun [OE. pees, pais, OF. pais, paiz, pes, F. paix,
L. pax, pacis, akin to pacere, paciscere, pacisci, to make an
agreement, and prob. also pangere to fasten. Cf. {Appease},
{Fair}, adjective, {Fay}, v., {Fang}, {Pacify}, {Pact}, {Pay} to
requite.]
A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or
agitation; calm; repose; specifically:
(a) Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies.
(b) Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law.
(c) Exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions;
tranquillity of mind or conscience.
(d) Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony;
concord. ''The eternal love and pees.'' --Chaucer.
Note: Peace is sometimes used as an exclamation in commanding
silence, quiet, or order. ''Peace! foolish woman.''
--Shak.
{At peace}, in a state of peace.
{Breach of the peace}. See under {Breach}.
{Justice of the peace}. See under {Justice}.
{Peace of God}. (Law)
(a) A term used in wills, indictments, etc., as denoting a
state of peace and good conduct.
(b) (Theol.) The peace of heart which is the gift of God.
{Peace offering}.
(a) (Jewish Antiq.) A voluntary offering to God in token of
devout homage and of a sense of friendly communion with
Him.
(b) A gift or service offered as satisfaction to an offended
person.
{Peace officer}, a civil officer whose duty it is to preserve
the public peace, to prevent riots, etc., as a sheriff or
constable.
{To hold one's peace}, to be silent; to refrain from
speaking.
{To make one's peace with}, to reconcile one with, to plead
one's cause with, or to become reconciled with, another.
''I will make your peace with him.'' --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
181 Moby Thesaurus words for "peace":
Pax Dei, Pax Romana, Peace of God, accord, accordance, affinity,
agape, agreement, amity, armistice, arrangement, array, assent,
ataraxia, ataraxy, awful silence, bonds of harmony,
breathing spell, brotherly love, buffer zone, calm, calmness,
caritas, cease-fire, cement of friendship, charity, chorus,
coherence, coincidence, commodiousness, communion, community,
community of interests, compatibility, composure, concert, concord,
concordance, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality,
congruence, congruency, congruity, consistency, consonance,
consort, contemplation, convenience, cooling-off period,
cooperation, correspondence, coziness, cushioniness, dead,
dead of night, deathlike silence, demilitarized zone, deployment,
disposal, disposition, easiness, empathy, equivalence, esprit,
esprit de corps, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship,
formation, frictionlessness, friendliness, golden silence,
good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmoniousness, harmony,
hollow truce, homelikeness, homeliness, homeyness, hospitality,
hush, hush of night, identity, imperturbability, inaudibility,
intersection, kinship, layout, like-mindedness, lineup, love,
lucid stillness, lull, luxuriousness, marmoreal repose, marshaling,
modus vivendi, mum, mutuality, neutral territory, nirvana,
noiselessness, oneness, order, organization, overlap, pacification,
parallelism, pax in bello, peace of mind, peaceableness,
peacefulness, peacetime, placidity, placidness, proportion,
quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude,
rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, regularity, repose,
reposefulness, rest, restfulness, roominess, routine, satori,
self-consistency, serenity, setup, sharing, silence, silentness,
silken repose, sleep, slumber, snugness, softness, solemn silence,
solidarity, soundlessness, stand-down, still, stillness, structure,
suspension of hostilities, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync,
synchronism, system, tacitness, taciturnity, tally, team spirit,
temporary arrangement, timing, tomblike silence, tranquillity,
treaty of peace, truce, understanding, uniformity, union, unison,
unisonance, unity, warmness, whisht, wise passiveness
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PEACE, noun In international affairs, a period of cheating between two
periods of fighting.
O, what's the loud uproar assailing
Mine ears without cease?
'Tis the voice of the hopeful, all-hailing
The horrors of peace.
Ah, Peace Universal; they woo it --
Would marry it, too.
If only they knew how to do it
'Twere easy to do.
They're working by night and by day
On their problem, like moles.
Have mercy, O Heaven, I pray,
On their meddlesome souls!
Ro Amil
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