peace

quiet, calm, rapport, concord, truce; lack of hostility: a time of peace
Not to be confused with:piece – part; section; fragment; portion: a piece of cake; a musical or literary composition

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P0130900 (pēs)n.1. The absence of war or other hostilities.2. An agreement or a treaty to end hostilities: negotiated the peace.3. Freedom from quarrels and disagreement; harmonious relations: roommates living in peace with each other.4. Public security and order: was arrested for disturbing the peace.5. Inner contentment; serenity: peace of mind.interj. Used as a greeting, a farewell, or a request for silence.Idioms: at peace1. In a state of tranquility; serene: She is at peace with herself and her friends.2. Free from strife: Everyone wants to live in a world at peace. keep/hold (one's) peace To be silent. keep the peace To maintain or observe law and order: officers who were sworn to keep the peace. peace out Slang Used to express "goodbye."

[Middle English pes, from Old French pais, pes, from Latin pāx, pāc-; see pax.]

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(piːs) n1. a. the state existing during the absence of warb. (as modifier): peace negotiations. 2. (modifier) denoting a person or thing symbolizing support for international peace: peace women. 3. (often capital) a treaty marking the end of a war4. a state of harmony between people or groups; freedom from strife5. law and order within a state; absence of violence or other disturbance: a breach of the peace. 6. absence of mental anxiety (often in the phrase peace of mind)7. a state of stillness, silence, or serenity8. at peace a. in a state of harmony or friendshipb. in a state of serenityc. dead: the old lady is at peace now. 9. hold one's peace keep one's peace to keep silent10. (Law) keep the peace to maintain or refrain from disturbing law and order11. make one's peace with to become reconciled with12. make peace to bring hostilities to an endvb (intr) chiefly obsolete to be or become silent or still[C12: from Old French pais, from Latin pāx]

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n., interj., v. peaced, peac•ing. n. 1. freedom from war; a cessation or absence of hostilities between nations. 2. a state of harmony between people or groups; freedom from dissension. 3. freedom from civil commotion; public order and security. 4. freedom from anxiety, annoyance, or other mental disturbance: peace of mind. 5. a state of tranquillity or serenity. 6. silence; stillness. 7. (often cap.) an agreement or treaty that ends a war or hostilities. interj. 8. (used to express greeting or farewell or to request silence.) v.i. 9. Obs. to be or become silent. Idioms: 1. at peace, a. untroubled; tranquil. b. deceased. 2. hold or keep one's peace, to refrain from or cease speaking; keep silent. 3. keep the peace, a. to maintain public order. b. to prevent discord. 4. make one's peace with, to become reconciled with or to. 5. make peace, to arrange a cessation of hostilities or antagonism. [1125–75; Middle English pes < Anglo-French; Old French pais, earlier paiz < Latin pācem, acc. of pāx; akin to pact]

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(See also PLACATION.)

all quiet on the Potomac A period of peace during a war; any time marked by the absence of fighting or quarreling. This expression (now used ironically or humorously) is generally thought to have originated and gained currency during the Civil War. It appeared as early as 1861 in an article by E. L. Beers in Harper’s Weekly. Simon Cameron, then Secretary of War, frequently used the phrase in his bulletins reporting the state of the war. Its origin has also been attributed to General George McClellan.

all quiet on the Western Front Peaceful, calm. This phrase is an update of the earlier all quiet on the Potomac. It was the official statement issued each day by the War Department during the periods of relatively little trench fighting in World War I.

bury the hatchet To lay down arms, to cease fighting, to make peace; also to bury the ax or tomahawk. The allusion is to the North American Indian custom of burying tomahawks, scalping-knives, and war clubs as a sign of good faith when concluding a peace. The procedure is described by Washington Irving in Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837):

The chiefs met; the amicable pipe was smoked, the hatchet buried, and peace formally proclaimed.

The expression dates from the late 1600s. See also take up the hatchet, COMBAT.

calm before the storm A period of relative peacefulness preceding an outbreak of confusion and tumult; the quiet and sane minutes just before chaos erupts. A drop in the barometric pressure prior to a thunderstorm produces an uncomfortable, almost eerie feeling of calmness. This meterological phenomenon has given rise to the popular expression calm before the storm.

dove A pacifist, one who opposes war, in contrast to a “hawk,” who advocates a belligerent, warlike policy; one who favors negotiation and compromise as a means of resolving differences. The dove has been a symbol of peace in art and literature since Noah sent a dove from the ark to see if the waters had abated (Genesis 8:8-12). Dove referring to an antiwar advocate gained currency in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and eventually became the label for those advocating withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam.

The hawks favored an air strike to eliminate the Cuban missile bases…. The doves opposed the air strikes and favored a blockade. (Alsop and Bartlett in Saturday Evening Post, December 8, 1962)

halcyon days A time of peace and prosperity; palmy or golden days. The halcyon was a bird, usually identified as a type of kingfisher, which bred in nests floating on the sea. The ancients believed that these birds charmed the winds and waves of the sea into tranquillity during their breeding season.

Thus, halycon days originally referred to the two weeks of calm weather about the time of the winter solstice during which the halcyons bred. The current, figurative sense of halcyon days dates from the latter half of the 16th century.

hold out the olive branch To make an overture for peace; to indicate one’s peaceful intentions. Long considered a token or symbol of peace, the olive branch was represented as such in Genesis 8:11:

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

A more recent example of its use appears below:

My mother … had first tendered the olive branch, which had been accepted. (Frederick Marryat, Percival Keene, 1837)

Today this phrase still frequently appears in formal contexts.

raise the white flag See SUBMISSION.

peace

Past participle: peaced
Gerund: peacing

Imperative
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Present
I peace
you peace
he/she/it peaces
we peace
you peace
they peace

Preterite
I peaced
you peaced
he/she/it peaced
we peaced
you peaced
they peaced

Present Continuous
I am peacing
you are peacing
he/she/it is peacing
we are peacing
you are peacing
they are peacing

Present Perfect
I have peaced
you have peaced
he/she/it has peaced
we have peaced
you have peaced
they have peaced

Past Continuous
I was peacing
you were peacing
he/she/it was peacing
we were peacing
you were peacing
they were peacing

Past Perfect
I had peaced
you had peaced
he/she/it had peaced
we had peaced
you had peaced
they had peaced

Future
I will peace
you will peace
he/she/it will peace
we will peace
you will peace
they will peace

Future Perfect
I will have peaced
you will have peaced
he/she/it will have peaced
we will have peaced
you will have peaced
they will have peaced

Future Continuous
I will be peacing
you will be peacing
he/she/it will be peacing
we will be peacing
you will be peacing
they will be peacing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been peacing
you have been peacing
he/she/it has been peacing
we have been peacing
you have been peacing
they have been peacing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been peacing
you will have been peacing
he/she/it will have been peacing
we will have been peacing
you will have been peacing
they will have been peacing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been peacing
you had been peacing
he/she/it had been peacing
we had been peacing
you had been peacing
they had been peacing

Conditional
I would peace
you would peace
he/she/it would peace
we would peace
you would peace
they would peace

Past Conditional
I would have peaced
you would have peaced
he/she/it would have peaced
we would have peaced
you would have peaced
they would have peaced

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	peace - the state prevailing during the absence of warorder - established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"amity - a state of friendship and cordialityarmistice, cease-fire, truce - a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace termsconciliation - the state of manifesting goodwill and cooperation after being reconciled; "there was a brief period of conciliation but the fighting soon resumed"collective security - a system for international peacePax Romana - the Roman peace; the long period of peace enforced on states in the Roman Empirestate of war, war - a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring"
	2.	peace - harmonious relations; freedom from disputes; "the roommates lived in peace together"concordance, concord, harmony - a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
	3.	peace - the absence of mental stress or anxietypeace of mind, ataraxis, peacefulness, repose, serenity, heartseasequietude, quietness, tranquillity, tranquility - a state of peace and quiet
	4.	peace - the general security of public places; "he was arrested for disturbing the peace"public securitysecurity - the state of being free from danger or injury; "we support the armed services in the name of national security"
	5.	peace - a treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th"peace treaty, pacificationpact, treaty, accord - a written agreement between two states or sovereigns

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noun1. truce, ceasefire, treaty, armistice, pacification, conciliation, cessation of hostilities They hope the treaty will bring peace to Southeast Asia.
truce war, warfare, hostilities, fighting, fight, battle, conflict, hostility, strife, bloodshed, armed conflict2. stillness, rest, quiet, silence, calm, hush, tranquillity, seclusion, repose, calmness, peacefulness, quietude, restfulness All I want is a bit of peace and quiet.3. serenity, calm, relaxation, composure, contentment, repose, equanimity, peacefulness, placidity, harmoniousness People always felt a sense of peace in her company.4. harmony, accord, agreement, concord, amity a period of relative peace in the country's industrial relationshold your peace say nothing, be silent, keep quiet, hold your tongue He disagreed, but diplomatically held his peace.Related words
adjective irenic or eirenicQuotations
"Peace hath her victories"
"No less renowned than war" [John Milton Sonnet, To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652]
"Let him who desires peace, prepare for war" [Vegetius De Re Militari]
"Peace is not the absence of war. Lasting peace is rooted in justice" [David Trimble]
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom" [Malcolm X Prospects for Peace in 1965]
"If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace" [Lord John Russell speech]
"In the arts of peace Man is a bungler" [George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman]
"the peace of God, which passeth all understanding" Bible: Philippians
"They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks" Bible: Isaiah
"War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading" [Thomas Hardy The Dynasts]
"peace: in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting" [Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary]

peace

noun1. Lack of emotional agitation:calm, calmness, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, quietude, serenity, tranquillity.2. An absence of motion or disturbance:calm, calmness, hush, lull, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, quiet, quietness, serenity, stillness, tranquillity, untroubledness.

Translations

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peace

(piːs) noun1. (sometimes with a) (a time of) freedom from war; (a treaty or agreement which brings about) the end or stopping of a war. Does our country want peace or war?; (also adjective) a peace treaty.和平2. freedom from disturbance; quietness. I need some peace and quiet.安宁ˈpeaceable adjective liking peace; not fighting, quarrelling etc. He's a peaceable person.和平的ˈpeaceably adverb和好地ˈpeaceful adjective quiet; calm; without worry or disturbance. It's very peaceful in the country.和平的ˈpeacefully adverb和平地ˈpeacefulness noun和平ˈpeacemaker noun a person who tries to make peace between enemies, people who are quarrelling etc. When my brother and sister quarrel I act as peacemaker.调解人ˈpeace-offering noun something offered or given to make peace. She took him a drink as a peace-offering.和平礼物ˈpeacetime noun a time when there is no war. Even in peacetime, a soldier's life is hard.和平时期at peace not at war; not fighting. The two countries were at peace.处于和睦状态in peace1. without disturbance. Why can't you leave me in peace?处于平静状态2. not wanting to fight. They said they came in peace.为了和平make peace to agree to end a war. The two countries finally made peace (with each other).讲和peace of mind freedom from worry etc. 平静的心情

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Peace,

river, 945 mi (1,521 km) long, formed by the junction of the Finlay and Parsnip rivers at Williston Lake, N central British Columbia, Canada. It flows east through the Rocky Mts., then generally northeast across N Alberta and onto the Northern Plains where it meanders to the Slave River at Lake Athabasca. From the head of the Finlay River the Peace River is 1,195 mi (1,923 km) long; it is one of the chief headstreams of the Mackenzie River. At the mouth of the Peace River is Wood Buffalo National Park. The valley of the middle Peace is fertile, with wheat the chief crop; it is the northernmost commercially important agricultural region of Canada. Large natural gas reserves are tapped along the river; oil, coal, salt, and gypsum deposits are also worked. Near Hudson Hope, British Columbia, W. A. C. Bennett Dam (625 ft/191 m high; opened 1967) impounds Williston Lake (680 sq mi/1,761 sq km). The dam's power plant (present generating capacity 2.1 million kW), the sixth largest in Canada, provides electricity for Vancouver. The Peace River was probably visited (1775–78) by Peter Pond, the American fur trader, and first explored (1792–93) by Sir Alexander Mackenzie, the Canadian explorer. It was long an important route of fur traders. Settlement in the valley began in the early 1900s.

Peace

(international peace), a relationship between nations and states based on the implementation of foreign policy through nonviolent means and the observance of assumed obligations that are usually defined in treaties; the absence of organized armed struggle between states. In antagonistic class societies peace is interrupted by wars and consolidates their outcomes. The character of peace, like that of war, is determined by the historical level of development of human society and the politics of the ruling classes.

A new historical era began with the emergence of socialism, the very nature of which is based on the aspiration for peace among nations. Everlasting peace among nations, the elimination of wars and preparations for them, is the international principle of communist society (K. Marx, in K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed., vol. 17, p. 5) and one of the great ideals for which communists struggle (V. I. Lenin, Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 26, p. 304).

The ideal of life without wars, a world in which generally recognized norms of justice would be observed in international relations, originated in antiquity (for example, the legends of the Golden Age, the antiwar Utopia of the Chinese philosopher Laotzu, and the novel on the sun state by the ancient Greek writer lambulus). Ideologists of the slaveholding class, such as the Chinese philosopher Mo-tzu and the Greek philosopher Aristotle, rejected the possibility of an enduring, equal peace with the “barbarians” and viewed peace as an internal problem of their respective nations (China and Greece). In feudal Europe the need to ward off the threat of foreign invasion gave rise to political plans for eliminating discord through alliances of states: the “Russian peace” of Roman of Galicia (13th century) and the “universal European peace” of the French thinker P. Dubois (14th century) and the Bohemian king George of Podebrady (15th century).

During the 17th and 18th centuries plans for European or world organizations for the peaceful resolution of international disputes were worked out by E. de la Croix (France, 1623), W. Penn (America, 1693), the French publicist Abbe de St.-Pierre (1708), the English economist J. Bellers (1710), the German philosopher I. Kant (1795), and the Russian Enlightenment figure V. F. Malinovskii (1803). Progressive thinkers of the 17th and 18th centuries asserted that equality and respect for the sovereignty of nations should be the basic principles of international relations. The chief condition for the realization of these principles and, consequently, for the achievement of “eternal peace” was, in their opinion, the abolition of society’s feudal and dynastic foundations. In the 17th century the founder of the principles of international law, H. Grotius, developed the idea of the humanization of wars and the regulation of the relationships between states in the interests of peace. Unlike the Enlightenment thinkers and the bourgeois democrats, the French Utopian communists of the 18th century (Morelly and G. Mably) pointed out that before wars could be eliminated, the social structure of nations had to be changed on the basis of community of property.

After the Napoleonic Wars (1815), a pacifist movement that sought to ensure peace on the foundation of capitalist relations developed in Europe. It played some role in working out conventions and agreements on the humanization of methods of waging war and on the peaceful resolution of international disputes and conflicts (for example, the Hague conventions of 1899 and 1907 and the establishment in 1899 of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international body).

The working-class movement began to oppose militarism and wars in the mid-1840’s. As Marx pointed out, “the unification of the working class of different countries ultimately must make wars among nations impossible” (K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed., vol. 16, p. 556). The First International considered the struggle for peace part of the struggle for the emancipation of the working class. Underscoring the necessity and possibility of defending peace under capitalism, Engels proposed a project in 1893 for European security based on disarmament. At the beginning of the 20th century the international socialist movement and the Bolshevik Party worked out antimilitarist tactics for the proletariat, which were expressed in the resolutions of the Stuttgart (1907) and Basel (1912) congresses of the Second International. During World War I (1914–18), V. I. Lenin studied the question of peace in connection with the socialist revolution of the proletariat. Posing the problem of peace in a historically concrete manner, in conjunction with the definite political demands and interests of the working class and the masses, Lenin remarked in his Letters From Afar in March 1917 that only a proletarian state is able “to achieve peace, not an imperialist peace, not a deal between the imperialist powers concerning the division of the booty by the capitalists and their governments, but a really lasting and democratic peace, which cannot be achieved without a proletarian revolution in a number of countries” (Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 31, p. 55).

The change in world politics from an imperialist peace, with the wars that grow out of it, to a durable democratic peace, which lays the foundation for the complete elimination of wars, began with the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution in 1917. In the first enactment of the Soviet government, the Decree on Peace, the program of democratic peace was organically linked to the new principle of international relations engendered by the socialist revolution—the principle of peaceful coexistence between the socialist and capitalist systems. The creation of the crucial guarantees for a stable peace has been approached gradually. During the period between the two world wars, the Soviet state and the international working class, led by the parties of the Third International, struggled for the new principles of world politics proposed by socialism. The development and strengthening of the might of the first socialist power and later, of the world socialist system also contributed to the establishment of guarantees of peace.

The contemporary statement of the issue of peace, as set forth by the Communist and workers’ parties at the international conferences of 1957, 1960, and 1969, rests on a new evaluation of the changed relationship between the power of socialism and capitalism. It proceeds from the fundamental fact that another world war is no longer inevitable, owing to the consistently peaceful policies of the USSR and other socialist states, the growing influence of the concerted policies of these countries on world events, the redoubling of the struggle of the working class and the toiling masses in the capitalist countries, the growth of the national liberation movement, and the activity of democratic forces throughout the world in defense of peace.

As a result of the unprecedented growth in the destructive power of military weapons, peace has become a problem for all of humanity. Essential to its resolution is joint action in defense of peace by all who have an interest in saving the fruits of mankind’s labor and creativity, regardless of their convictions and political views. On the one hand, the struggle for peace is inseparable from the development of the antiimperialist movement; it merges with the struggle for the freedom of nations, for progress, and for democracy. On the other hand, the consolidation of peace creates favorable conditions for the liberation struggle of the toilers.

Communists reject both the pseudorevolutionary extremist idea that socialism and peace are consolidated as a result of war and the right-wing opportunist conception that peace is a repudiation of the class struggle and of the struggle against bourgeois ideology and politics. Because the offensive against imperialism—the source of the threat of war—has intensified, it is possible to gain a decisive victory over imperialism and to defeat its aggressive policies, to impose peaceful coexistence on the imperialists, and to realize the striving of peoples for peace. The chief preconditions for peace are the cessation of the arms race, disarmament, the abolition of military blocs and hotbeds of war, the repudiation of acts of aggression and international tyranny, and the development of international cooperation. In the first half of the 1970’s the struggle of the Soviet state and other peace-loving forces to bring about fundamental change in the direction of detente led to a new situation, in which guaranteeing the irreversibility of progress toward peace and peaceful coexistence among states with different social systems became a practical task.

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Marx, K. “Pervoe vozzvanie General’nogo soveta Mezhdunarodnogo Tovarishchestva Rabochikh o franko-prusskoi voine.” In K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed., vol. 17.
Engels, F. “Mozhet li Evropa razoruzhit’sia?” Ibid., vol. 22.
Lenin, V. I.O mezhdunarodnoipolitike i mezhdunarodnomprave [collection]. Moscow, 1958.
Dokumenty Soveshchaniia predstavitelei kommunisticheskikh i rabochikh partii: Dokumenty i materialy. Moscow, 1960.
Mezhdunarodnoe Soveshchanie kommunisticheskikh i rabochikh partii, Moskva, 1969. Prague, 1969.
XXIV s”ezd Kommunistichekoi partii Sovetskogo Soiuza: Stenograficheskii otchet, vols. 1–2. Moscow, 1971.
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Problemy voiny i mira. Moscow, 1967.

E. G. PANFILOV

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Beulah, Landof resting-place of pilgrims after crossing river of Death. [Br. Lit.: Pilgrim’s Progress]Concordiaancient Roman goddess of peace and domestic harmony. [Rom. Myth.: Zimmerman, 68]doveemblem of peace, tenderness, innocence, and gentleness. [Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 340]Genevasite of peace conferences (1955, 1960); seat of League of Nations (1920–1946). [Swiss Hist.: NCE, 1058]Goshen, Land ofplace of peace and prosperity. [O.T.: Genesis 14:10]Irenegoddess of peace and conciliation. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 21]Jesus Christprince of peace in Christian beliefs. [N.T.: Matthew; Mark; Luke; John]laureltraditional emblem of peace. [Plant Symbolism: Jobes, 374]olive branchsymbol of peace and serenity. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Brewer Handbook; O.T.: Genesis, 8:11]Paxgoddess of peace. [Rom. Myth.: Zimmerman, 194]peace pipepipe of North American Indians; smoked at conclusion of peace treaties. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 427]Quakersnonmilitant, gentle, religious sect. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 189]

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noun truce

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noun stillness

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noun serenity

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noun harmony

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phrase hold your peace

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noun lack of emotional agitation

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noun an absence of motion or disturbance

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noun the state prevailing during the absence of war

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noun harmonious relations

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noun the absence of mental stress or anxiety

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noun the general security of public places

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noun a treaty to cease hostilities

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