OLIVE BRANCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does olive branch mean? 

• OLIVE BRANCH (noun)
  The noun OLIVE BRANCH has 1 sense:

1. something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace

  Familiarity information: OLIVE BRANCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLIVE BRANCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

olive branch; peace offering

Hypernyms ("olive branch" is a kind of...):

offer; offering (something offered (as a proposal or bid))