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PEACE OFFERING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does peace offering mean?
• PEACE OFFERING (noun)
The noun PEACE OFFERING has 1 sense:
1. something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace
Familiarity information: PEACE OFFERING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("peace offering" is a kind of...):
Context examples
She put them in his buttonhole as a peace offering, and he stood a minute looking down at them with a curious expression, for in the Italian part of his nature there was a touch of superstition, and he was just then in that state of half-sweet, half-bitter melancholy, when imaginative young men find significance in trifles and food for romance everywhere.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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