peace officer

Questions about peace officer

What does peace officer mean?

peace officer means "an officer of the law".

What is another word for peace officer?

Close synonyms include lawman, law officer. 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 peace officer a common word?

peace officer 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.