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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 peaceplay

  Familiarity information: PEACE OFFERING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PEACE OFFERING (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 ("peace offering" is a kind of...):

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


 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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