olive branch

1. 1.

   something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace

   Synonymspeace offering

   Broaderoffer

Questions about olive branch

What does olive branch mean?

olive branch means "something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace".

What is another word for olive branch?

Close synonyms include peace offering. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is olive branch a common word?

olive branch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.