peace

Roget category 721

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.4. Antagonism
›› 5.4.2. Active antagonism

#721. Peace

noun

peace — amity etc. (friendship) 888 — harmony etc. (concord) 714 — tranquility, calm etc. (quiescence) 265 — truce, peace treaty, accord etc. (pacification) 723 — peace pipe, pipe of peace, calumet of peace.
piping time of peace, quiet life — neutrality.
[symbol of peace] dove of peace, white dove.
[person who favors peace] dove.
pax Romana [Lat.] — Pax Americana [Lat.].

verb

be at peace — keep the peace etc. (concord) 714.
make peace etc. 723.

adjective

pacific — peaceable, peaceful — calm, tranquil, untroubled, halcyon — bloodless — neutral.
dovish

phrase

the storm blown over — the lion lies down with the lamb — all quiet on the Potomac —" paritur pax bello [Lat.] [Nepos]; peace hath her victories no less renowned than peace hath her victories no less renowned than war" [Milton]; they make a desert and they call it peace.
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