PEACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peace mean? 

• PEACE (noun)
  The noun PEACE has 5 senses:

1. the state prevailing during the absence of war

2. harmonious relations; freedom from disputes

3. the absence of mental stress or anxiety

4. the general security of public places

5. a treaty to cease hostilities

  Familiarity information: PEACE used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state prevailing during the absence of war

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("peace" is a kind of...):

order (established customary state (especially of society))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peace"):

amity (a state of friendship and cordiality)

armistice; cease-fire; truce (a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms)

conciliation (the state of manifesting goodwill and cooperation after being reconciled)

collective security (a system for international peace)

Pax Romana (the Roman peace; the long period of peace enforced on states in the Roman Empire)

Antonym:

war (a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply)

Derivation:

pacify (fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Harmonious relations; freedom from disputes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

the roommates lived in peace together

Hypernyms ("peace" is a kind of...):

concord; concordance; 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)

Derivation:

pacify (cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The absence of mental stress or anxiety

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

ataraxis; heartsease; peace; peace of mind; peacefulness; repose; serenity

Hypernyms ("peace" is a kind of...):

quietness; quietude; tranquility; tranquillity (a state of peace and quiet)

Derivation:

pacify (cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The general security of public places

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

peace; public security

Context example:

he was arrested for disturbing the peace

Hypernyms ("peace" is a kind of...):

security (the state of being free from danger or injury)

Derivation:

pacify (fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location))

Sense 5

Meaning:

A treaty to cease hostilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

pacification; peace; peace treaty

Context example:

peace came on November 11th

Hypernyms ("peace" is a kind of...):

accord; pact; treaty (a written agreement between two states or sovereigns)

Instance hyponyms:

Peace of Westphalia (the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648)

Treaty of Versailles (the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans)

Derivation:

pacify (fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location))

 Context examples 

Be careful, be very careful, not to wake his anger against yourself, for peace and happiness depend on keeping his respect.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The goal of the care is to help people who are dying have peace, comfort, and dignity.

(Hospice Care, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Yet I will promise you that on our way we shall find time to pass Freshwater and to prevail upon these rovers to leave you in peace.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The deep peace of this strange waterway was unbroken by any sign of man.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“How is it with thee, friend?” said he, “dost thou not feel that wisdom comes unto thee? Rest there in peace, till thou art a wiser man than thou wert.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She never gave him a moment's peace.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It removes more than half my misfortune, and I feel as if I could die in peace now that my innocence is acknowledged by you, dear lady, and your cousin.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Your peace will not be shipwrecked as mine has been.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He could not—he would not—renounce his wild field of mission warfare for the parlours and the peace of Vale Hall.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But the peace and rest of the old Sunday morning were on everything, except me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)