Word Meanings - PEACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose; specifically: Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies. Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law. Exemption from, or subjection

Additional info about word: PEACE

A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose; specifically: Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies. Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law. Exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions; tranquillity of mind or conscience. 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. A term used in wills, indictments, etc., as denoting a state of peace and good conduct. The peace of heart which is the gift of God. -- Peace offering. A voluntary offering to God in token of devout homage and of a sense of friendly communion with Him. 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. (more info) pax, pacis, akin to pacere, paciscere, pacisci, to make an agreement, and prob. also pangere to fasten. Cf. Appease, Fair, a., Fay, v.,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PEACE)

• amity
• Friendliness
• peace
• sociableness
• good will
• Concord
• Harmony
• accordance
• agreement
• union
• unity
• unanimity
• Quiet
• Rest
• repose
• stillness
• calm
• appeasement
• pacification
• silence
• cessation
• tranquillity
• security
• pause
• interval
• intermission
• Silence
• Taciturnity
• hush
• muteness
• secrecy
• oblivion

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PEACE)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad
• Rise
• stand
• wander
• flit
• flutter
• remove
• transfer

Related words: (words related to PEACE)

• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• PACIFICATION
  The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of pacification." Bacon.
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• UNANIMITY
  The quality or state of being unanimous.
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• CONCORDANT
  Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant. Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. Sir T. Browne
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• SECRECY
  1. The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy. The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married. Shak. 2. That which is concealed; a secret. Shak. 3. Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• INTERVAL
  Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.
• SOCIABLENESS
  The quality of being sociable.
• SECURITY
  1. The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically: Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.