peacetimenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈpiːs.taɪm/us/ˈpiːs.taɪm/a period of time when a country is not at war
Compare
wartime
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Peace
- anti-war
- concord
- dove
- dovish
- hold out/offer an olive branch idiom
- non-aggression
- non-violence
- olive
- pacific
- pacifism
- pacifist
- Pax
- peace
- peace offering
- peace-loving
- peaceable
- peaceful
- peacekeeping
- phoney war
- truce
Examples from literature
- As knowledge of poisons grew, they started to be used in peacetime too, for example as punishment.