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say it: pees
peace is a noun meaning "the state prevailing during the absence of war". It is pronounced /ˈpis/ — pees. It carries 5 recorded senses.
the state prevailing during the absence of war
the absence of mental stress or anxiety
the general security of public places
“he was arrested for disturbing the peace”
a treaty to cease hostilities
“peace came on November 11th”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for peace come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.