peacekeeping

1. 1.

   the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations)

   Synonymspeacekeeping missionpeacekeeping operation

   Broaderoperation

   military

1. 1.

   of or relating to the preservation of peace between hostile groups by international military forces

   “a peacekeeping force”

Other forms of peacekeeping

plural

peacekeepings·

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.

Questions about peacekeeping

What does peacekeeping mean?

peacekeeping means "the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in peacekeeping?

peacekeeping has 3 syllables: peace-kee-ping. The stress falls on "peace". In IPA it is /ˈpiˌskipɪŋ/.

What is another word for peacekeeping?

Close synonyms include peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping operation. 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 peacekeeping a common word?

peacekeeping is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with peacekeeping?

1 word rhymes with peacekeeping. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.